IMF Sees Sluggish Global Growth with Rising Risks

By Gita Gopinath عربي, 中文 , Español , Français , 日本語 ,  Português , Русский In our July update of the World Economic Outlook ...

Corporate Tax Rates: How Low Can You Go

By IMFBlog In life, two things are certain: death and taxes, the saying goes. Unless you are a large multinational corporati...

Tariff Shocks in Europe

By Raju Huidrom , Carlos Mulas-Granados , Laura Papi , and Emil Stavrev ( Español , Português ) The Czech Republic exports only ...

Trade Balances Mostly Driven by Economic Forces, Not Tariffs

By IMFBlog Español , Português Over the past two decades, most of the changes in bilateral trade balances—the difference in the...

The Slope of the US Yield Curve and Risks to Growth

By Tobias Adrian , Rohit Goel and Fabio Natalucci The slope of the yield curve in the US has inverted in recent months, makin...

Bank Profitability: Consider the Source

By  Udaibir S. Das , Kun Hu , and TengTeng Xu Español, Français , Português The global financial crisis of 2007–2009 and the en...

The Global Economy: A Delicate Moment

By Gita Gopinath عربي , 中文 , Español , Français , 日本語 , Português , Русский A year ago, economic activity was accelerating in alm...

Charting China's Digital Dividend

By Longmei Zhang and Sally Chen , IMFBlog          Digitalization has created millions of new jobs in China, accounting for betwee...

How to Make Negative Interest Rates Work

By Ruchir Agarwal and Signe Krogstrup ,  IMFBlog     Many central banks reduced policy interest rates to zero during the global fin...