July 26, 2021/IMFBlog By Tobias Adrian and Rhoda Weeks-Brown New digital forms of money have the potential to provide cheaper and faster payments, enhance financial inclusion, improve resilience and competition among payment providers, and facilitate cross-border transfers. But doing so is not straightforward. It requires significant investment as well as difficult […]

July 26, 2021/IMFBlog By Christian Mumssen and Seán Nolan Low-income countries have been hard hit by the pandemic. Their large financing needs are only likely to grow as they deal with the crisis and its economic aftermath. The IMF has approved a far-reaching package of support that would expand their […]

July 26, 2021/United Capital Research Please click here to download the full report Executive Summary Global Economy: Strong but uneven recovery 2021 was tagged the year of return to normalcy, and we highlighted that growth across countries would remain uneven due to differing wealth of nations. Large swathes of that forecast have […]