Well Spent: How Strong Infrastructure Governance Can End Waste in Public Investment
Drawing on the Fund's analytical and capacity development work, including Public Investment Management Assessments (PIMAs) carried out in more than 60 countries, the book will address how countries can attain quality infrastructure outcomes through better infrastructure governance-an issue becoming increasingly important in the context of the Great Lockdown and its economic consequences.
Policy Steps to Address the Corona Crisis
Monitoring, containing and mitigating the effects of the corona virus are top priorities. Timely and decisive actions by health authorities, central banks, fiscal, regulatory and supervisory authorities can help contain the virus outbreak and offset the economic impact of the pandemic.
Stress Testing: Principles, Concepts, and Frameworks
The objective of this volume is to present IMF staff's further analyses and applications of these tools. Stress test exercises must be undertaken within a coherent and comprehensive framework; they must take into account "best practice" principles and incorporate key concepts; and they must hold up under intense scrutiny given their ability to significantly influence results.
Fiscal Monitor, April 2020
This report argues that fiscal policies are at the forefront of responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Fiscal measures can save lives, protect the most-affected people and firms from the economic impact of the pandemic, and prevent the health crisis from turning into a deep long-lasting slump.
IMF Publications Catalog, Spring/Summer 2020
This catalog showcases the most recent and upcoming publiactions that have been produced by the International Monetray Fund.
Enhancing the Emergency Financing Toolkit-Responding To The COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic is creating severe disruption in the global economic and financial system. Many member countries face urgent and unprecedented financing needs. The paper proposes to enhance the Fund's emergency financing toolkit, through a temporary increase in access limits for both the Rapid Financing Instrument, available to all members, and the Rapid Credit Facility, available to Poverty Reduction Growth Trust-eligible members only.
Regional Economic Outlook, April 2020, Middle East and Central Asia
In addition to the devastating toll on human health, the COVID-19 pandemic is causing significant economic turmoil through simultaneous supply and demand shocks-plunging oil and commodity prices, dropping domestic and external demandfalling consumer confidence, tightening financial conditions, and disruption in production and global supply chains. Consequently, as in the other parts of the world, a severe hit to economic activity is expected in the Middle East and Central Asia region in 2020.
Regional Economic Outlook, April 2020, Sub-Saharan Africa : COVID-19: An Unprecedented Threat to Development
Sub-Saharan Africa is facing an unprecedented health and economic crisis that threatens to throw the region off its stride, reversing the encouraging development progress of recent years. Furthermore, by exacting a heavy human toll, upending livelihoods, and damaging business and government balance sheets, the crisis threatens to retard the region's growth prospects in the years to come.
