January 15, 2020 By Jihad Azour and Ling Zhu Since the global financial crisis of 2008, emerging market economies have experienced a surge in capital flows in response to significant monetary easing by major central banks. Gross capital inflows to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) have remained high […]

January 14, 2020/OilPrice.com Chart of the Week The EIA expects 42 gigawatts of new electricity capacity to come online in 2020, with solar and wind accounting for nearly 32 GW of that total, or 76 percent. –    Wind alone accounts for 44 percent of expected new capacity. Solar represents 32 […]

January 13, 2020/IMFBlog By David Lipton Last March, Operation Taiex led to the arrest of the gang leader behind the Carbanak and Cobalt malware attacks on over 100 financial institutions worldwide. This law enforcement operation included the Spanish national police, Europol, FBI, the Romanian, Moldovan, Belarusian, and Taiwanese authorities, as […]