Asia and the IMF: Toward a Deeper Engagement
Update: IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn delivered speeches in both Singapore and Beijing. In Singapore he spoke of a leadership role for Asia, while in Beijing he addressed how China is...
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By Roberto Guimarães and Laura Papi The extent of the recent slowdown in India’s growth rate has surprised most India watchers even in the face of ongoing international financial market volatility,...
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By Laura Papi and Kiichi Tokuoka* India’s investment, the main driver of economic growth in the mid-2000s when the country was growing in excess of 9 percent a year, has been sluggish for the past...
View ArticleSocrates & the Pope: Overheard at the IMF’s Spring Meetings
By IMFdirect editors Socrates’ famous method to develop his students’ intellect was to question them relentlessly in an unending search for contradictions and the truth—or at the very least, a great...
View ArticleIt’s Mostly Food: How to Tame Indian Inflation
By Rahul Anand and Paul Cashin After being low for decades, inflation in India trended higher from the mid-2000s. It reached 10–11 percent by 2008, and remained elevated at double digits for several...
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