Culled—Proshare December 13, 2016/Meristem Research Shortly after OPEC members agreed to cut production by 1.2MMbpd, representatives of OPEC and Non-OPEC member countries met at Vienna over the weekend, Saturday 10th December 2016, to discuss the prevailing challenges facing the industry and reached an agreement on further production cut from Non-OPEC […]

December 12, 2016/iMFdirect By Maurice Obstfeld and Poul M. Thomsen Greece is once again in the headlines as discussions for the second review of its European Stability Mechanism (ESM) program are gaining pace. Unfortunately, the discussions have also spurred some misinformation about the role and the views of the IMF. […]

December 12, 2016/IMF EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Small developing states are disproportionately vulnerable to natural disasters. On average, the annual cost of disasters for small states is nearly 2 percent of GDP—more than four times that for larger countries. This reflects a higher frequency of disasters, adjusted for land area, as well […]