Annual Report of the Executive Board

International Monetary Fund Annual Report 2019: Our Connected World

October 4, 2019

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International Monetary Fund Annual Report 2019: Our Connected World, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2019) accessed December 3, 2024

Summary

This issue of Annual Report discusses that the global economy is at a delicate moment. The expansion of early 2018 has lost momentum, in large part in response to rising trade tensions. There are threats from rising financial vulnerabilities and geopolitical uncertainties. These challenges call for policymakers to avoid missteps and to take the right policy steps: at home, across borders, and globally. In addition to several major reviews looking at IMF conditionality, economic and financial surveillance, and lending facilities, the management has deepened its analysis on trade spillovers and financial stability and are revamping frameworks for debt sustainability assessment in low-income and market access countries. Building on earlier research that showed how trade can boost incomes and living standards by enabling the flow of technology across countries, the October 2018 World Economic Outlook provided illustrative scenarios of the potential impact of escalating trade tensions between the United States and China.

Subject: Budget planning and preparation, Credit, External audit, Financial sector policy and analysis, Financial sector stability, Labor, Money, Poverty, Poverty reduction strategy, Public financial management (PFM)

Keywords: AR, AREA, Asia and Pacific, Budget planning and preparation, Capacity development, Central Asia, Country, Credit, External audit, Financial sector stability, Global, IMF finance department, IMF headquarters, IMF policy advice, IMF staff calculation, IMF-World Bank Bali Fintech Agenda, Middle East and Central Asia, Poverty reduction strategy, SDR, Sub-Saharan Africa, Trade

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    60

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Annual Report of the Executive Board No. 2019/001

  • Stock No:

    ARIEA2019001

  • ISBN:

    9781498321563

  • ISSN:

    2227-8915