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Panelists at the 2009 Economic Forum. Implementing the correct policies will be critical in the months ahead (Photo: IMF)

Experts Warn Financial System Risks Still High

November 10, 2009

Governments need to rethink how the financial sector intersects with the broader economy if future crises are to be avoided, economists agreed at a panel discussion at the International Monetary Fund’s recently held Economic Forum.

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Global Recovery Under Way but Likely to Be Slow, Says IMF

October 01, 2009
After a deep recession, global economic growth has turned positive, driven by wide-ranging, coordinated public intervention that has supported demand and reduced uncertainty and systemic risk in financial markets, according to the IMF’s latest report on the global economy.

IMF Says Financial Surveillance To Be More Focused, Candid

September 29, 2009
To keep pace with rapid changes in global finance, the IMF is improving its ability to monitor countries' financial stability, and plans to make its reports more focused and candid after drawing lessons from the global crisis.

Central Banks Should Move Beyond Price Stability

September 22, 2009
Monetary policymakers should consider doing more to counter credit market cycles to reduce risks of damaging asset price busts, according to a new IMF study after the worst financial market slump since the Great Depression.

Recession Loosens Grip But Weak Recovery Ahead

July 08, 2009
The global economy is beginning to pull out of a recession unprecedented in the post–World War II era and risks to the global financial system have moderated, but stabilization is uneven and the recovery is expected to be sluggish, according to the IMF’s latest forecast.

Global Economy Contracts, With Slow Recovery Next Year

April 22, 2009
In the most severe recession since World War II, the global economy is projected to shrink by 1.3 percent in 2009, with a slow recovery expected to take hold next year, according to the IMF’s April World Economic Outlook.

IMF: Prevent Institutions Becoming Too Connected to Fail

April 21, 2009
The current financial crisis highlights the problem of an institution that is too connected to be allowed to fail because it is linked to so many other financial institutions. Its demise could thus trigger catastrophic financial sector failures, new IMF research warns.

Rapid Spread of Crisis Reflects Close Global Economic Ties

April 16, 2009
Emerging economies are now so closely integrated with advanced economies that financial stress transmits rapidly and forcefully, with financial linkages a key channel of transmission, according to new IMF research.

Overhauling Europe's Financial System

April 14, 2009
Although the rationale for creating a single financial market in the European Union remains compelling, there is a real risk that the global financial crisis will derail the latest attempts to reach this goal.

World Growth Grinds to Virtual Halt, IMF Urges Decisive Global Policy Response

January 28, 2009
The IMF sharply revises downward its forecast for world growth in 2009 to lowest since World War II and urges policymakers to take stronger policy action.

Study Finds IMF Helps Countries in Use of Aid

January 06, 2009
A new study shows that IMF-supported programs are designed so that low-income countries can use, within a few years, most or all of the increases in aid they receive, refuting charges by some critics that the IMF restricts use of aid.

Global Financial System Shows Signs of Recovery, IMF Says

September 30, 2009
Risks to the global financial system have subsided as a result of unprecedented policy actions and, more recently, a nascent global economic recovery, a new IMF report says. But the report also warns of significant policy issues on the road to financial rehabilitation.

Financial Crises Tend to Have Long Impact on the Economy

September 22, 2009
The global financial crisis is likely to leave long-lasting scars on the world economy, but governments can act to stimulate a quicker revival and counter output losses, according to a new IMF study.

Revive Securitization to Speed Exit from Crisis, says IMF

September 21, 2009
Restarting securitization markets, particularly in the United States, is critical to limiting the fallout from the economic crisis and to the eventually withdrawing central bank and government support, the IMF says.

Tax Policies Made Countries More Vulnerable to Crisis

June 16, 2009
Tax policies in the advanced economis are likely to have contributed to the global economic crisis by favoring debt financing and encouraging the use of complex financial instruments and arrangements, an IMF study argues.

New Methods Aim to Identify Systemic Financial Risks

April 21, 2009
The global crisis has highlighted that further progress is needed to identify and address systemic risks—those that threaten the financial system rather than individual financial institutions or markets. But first those risks must be identified and measured, new IMF research says.

Further Action Needed to Reinforce Signs of Market Recovery: IMF

April 21, 2009
An unprecedented policy response to the global economic crisis is gradually beginning to restore market confidence, the IMF says. But in its semiannual Global Financial Stability Report the IMF warns that the challenges to restoring financial stability remain significant.

Global Recession to Be Long, Deep with Slow Recovery

April 16, 2009
Two features of the current recession—its association with deep financial crisis and its highly synchronized nature—suggest that it is likely to be unusually severe and followed by a slow recovery, according to new IMF research. However, macroeconomic policies can cushion the blows to incomes.

Crisis-Hit Countries To See Sharp Rise in Government Debt

March 06, 2009
The cost of fiscal stimulus packages to revive economies battered by the financial crisis, combined with tax revenue losses from output decline and the huge price tag for financial sector restructuring, will be very large, the IMF says in a new study.

Governments Must Take Stronger Measures to Strengthen Banks

January 28, 2009
IMF raises estimate of U.S.-origin asset writedowns to $2.2 trillion as financial markets continue to deteriorate. The multilateral institution presses for stronger measures to clean up banks' balance sheets and bolster their capital.

IMF Predicts Major Global Slowdown Amid Financial Crisis

October 08, 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.

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