Last Updated: October 09, 2008

Economic Surveillance

World financial leaders at IMF-World Bank Annual Meetings are expected to consider reforming underlying rules of global finance (photo: Arne Dedert/DPA)

The world's central bankers and finance ministers gather in Washington October 10-13 to discuss a global response to the credit crunch amid the worst financial crisis to hit advanced economies since the 1930s.

Opinion

Wanted urgently: a comprehensive and global solution

October 8, 2008
As bleak as the situation now looks, I am convinced that there is a way out of our shared predicament. The trick is to get policymakers around the world to pull in the same direction.

IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn

Policy Overview

Statement: Surveillance Priorities for the International Monetary Fund
October 8, 2008

Factsheet: IMF Surveillance

Factsheet: The 2007 Decision on Bilateral Surveillance

Country Analysis

Saudi Arabia: Managing the Oil Bonanza

September 19, 2008
Saudi Arabia is experiencing robust growth, thanks to high oil prices and strong private sector investment. But surging oil revenues also present complex challenges, including how to share the wealth from nonrenewable oil resources with future generations.

Cross-Country Analysis

Lessons From Cross-Regional Analysis

October 2, 2008
A new IMF study explores the patterns of current account balances of emerging economies—especially in Asia and Europe—and asks why they have become much more diverse in recent years and what those differences mean for external vulnerability.

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Spotlight

IMF Predicts Major Global Slowdown Amid Financial Crisis

July 22, 2008
The world economy is decelerating quickly—buffeted by an extraordinary financial shock and by still-high energy and commodity prices—and many advanced economies are close to or moving into recession, the IMF says in its latest World Economic Outlook (WEO).

Video: Tough Times Ahead for the World Economy

October 9, 2008

Macro-Financial Linkages

October 2008
With financial markets worldwide facing growing turmoil, internationally coherent and decisive policy measures will be required to restore confidence in the global financial system.

Exchange Rates

IMF Clarifies How It Will Monitor Economic Policies

August 12, 2008
The International Monetary Fund has published new procedures on how it will monitor member countries' economic policies, clarifying in particular how it will discuss with countries exchange rate issues and their impact on the global economy.