Asia and the world face growing risks from economic fragmentation

By Diego Cerdeiro, Siddharth Kothari and Chris Redl Geopolitical tensions have raised the prospect that strategic competition and national security concerns may trump the shared economic benefits of global...

How countries should respond to the strong dollar

By Gita Gopinath and Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas The dollar is at its highest level since 2000, having appreciated 22 percent against the yen, 13 percent against the Euro and...

From 1980s debt crisis to crypto era, financial stability monitoring is always evolving

By Tobias Adrian, Fabio Natalucci and Mahvash S. Qureshi Twenty years ago, the IMF released its inaugural Global Financial Stability Report to strengthen surveillance of financial markets after a series of crises in...