The Fund has recognized in recent years that one cannot separate issues of economic growth and stability on one hand and equality on the other. Indeed, there is a strong case for considering inequality and an inability to sustain economic growth as two sides of the same coin. Central to the...

This note raises the IMF’s profile on a number of issues related to inequality, unemployment, governance, etc. It builds on earlier empirical work that examined correlations between growth downbreaks/duration of growth spells and a range of macro/policy/institutional factors. This paper is...

En esta nota se presenta el enfoque del FMI con respecto a una serie de cuestiones relacionadas con la desigualdad, el desempleo, la gestión de gobierno, etc. Se basa en estudios empíricos anteriores que examinan las correlaciones entre las desaceleraciones del crecimiento/la duración de las...