October 13, 2022/IMF Opening Remarks for the Annual Meetings Press Conference By Kristalina Georgieva, IMF Managing Director Washington, DC, October 13, 2022 Welcome to our 2022 Annual Meetings. As we gather, we face a difficult global environment. The world economy has been hit by one shock after another—Covid, Russia’s invasion […]
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IMF MD Kristalina Georgieva Announces Operationalization of the RST to Help Vulnerable Countries Meet Long-Term Challenges
October 12, 2022/IMF Ms. Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) made the following statement today: “I am delighted to announce that the new Resilience and Sustainability Trust (RST) has become operational. Today, I notified the Executive Board that with our fundraising to date, the RST is […]
Global Financial Stability Risks Have Increased Amid a Series of Cascading Shocks
October 11, 2022/IMF Chapter 1 analyzes the policy response of central banks to high inflation, the risks of a disorderly tightening of financial conditions, and debt distress among emerging and frontier markets. Markets have been extremely volatile, and a deterioration in market liquidity appears to have amplified price moves. In […]
