International Monetary Fund / External Relations Dept - 2009
because of Europe's strong regional and global trade links. Marek Belka, Director of the IMF's European Department, writes in …. Also in this issue, IMF economists rank the current recession as the most severe in the postwar period; John Lipsky, the … Fund's First Deputy Managing Director, examines the IMF's role in a postcrisis world; and Giovanni Dell'Ariccia assesses …