Persistent challenges: The multi-speed nature of the global economic recovery is testing the system, with strains already appearing in the form of large capital inflows to many emerging market countries and exchange rate pressures. At the same time, slow employment growth, high indebtedness, and...

This paper responds to the request in the April 2009 IMFC communique for the Executive Board to report on governance reform. The current crisis has shown that the Fund's decision-making structures can deliver the kind of innovative and rapid responses the membership needs and expects. Even so,...

The global economy has entered a dangerous new phase with severe downside risks. The Fund has been called by the IMFC to contribute to an orderly resolution of these tensions, and the membership must be prepared for bold action. Our first responsibility is to help develop and coordinate...

The management of capital inflows is an area where historically the Fund has found it difficult to find a clear consensus. Yet our policy advice clearly cannot exclude a whole swath of economic policies-still less an area where the benefits of getting it right are significant, the economic and...

The Managing Director's Global Policy Agenda (GPA) presented to the IMFC during the Annual Meetings charted a set of actions needed across the membership to secure the recovery and to lay the foundation for a more robust global financial architecture. The GPA also detailed the Fund's role in...

The global recovery has suffered new setbacks with uncertainty weighing heavily on confidence and prospects. Output is contracting in the euro area and growth has decelerated in many other advanced economies and major emerging markets. Markets have been buoyed by central bank action in the...

The global economy has avoided the worst, but it is by no means out of the woods, and prospects may be diverging. A three-speed global recovery is emerging. Sentiment has improved, but growth and jobs are still lagging in many places, some old risks remain and could rekindle tail risks, and new...

This report by the external panel of experts ('the panel') examines the effectiveness and appropriateness of the safeguards policy over the ten years since the inception of the policy, and most particularly in the five years since its last review. Furthermore, the panel, drawing on its research...