27/1/2017/IMF By Christine Lagarde, Managing Director, IMF Good afternoon. Nsanyuse okubalaba. I am pleased to be with you.  Thank you to the Government of Uganda for hosting this event and to Minister Kasaija for his kind introduction. This gathering provides an opportunity to congratulate Uganda for its impressive economic achievements […]

January 26, 2017/IMF By Stefania Fabrizio, Davide Furceri,  Rodrigo Garcia-Verdu, Bin Grace Li, Sandra V. Lizarazo, Marina Mendes Tavares, Futoshi Narita, and Adrian Peralta-Alva EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Despite strong growth over the past two decades, income inequality remains high in many low-income developing countries (LIDCs). As shown by earlier work, including […]

January 24, 2017 by iMFdirect By Prakash Loungani Four years ago, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde warned of the dangers of rising inequality, a topic that has now risen to the very top of the global policy agenda. While the IMF’s work on […]