July 30, 2020/IMFBlog By Tobias Adrian, Ghiath Shabsigh, and Ashraf Khan The role and mandates of central banks have become broader and more complex since the 2008 global financial crisis. The unconventional nature and growing scale of interventions (as seen again during the COVID-19 pandemic) have brought on much higher […]

July 29, 2020/InvestmentOne Report Please click to download our H2 2020 Outlook: In Dire Straits   ·         We opine that, to see a lasting end to the menace of COVID-19, a cure or vaccine will have to be created. While a vaccine may be developed by 2021, we opine that this  pandemic […]

July 29, 2020/IMFBlog By Montford Mlachila and Rasmane Ouedraogo While the economic effects of conflict and political instability have been analyzed extensively, much less attention has been paid to how banks are affected. Our IMF staff paper addresses this gap by investigating whether rising conflict and political instability globally over […]