April 24, 2019/IMFBlog By IMFBlog IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde had a one-on-one conversation with Sir David Attenborough, the preeminent global broadcaster, during the April IMF-World Bank Spring Meetings on the environment and life on earth. The conversation explored more specifically the interplay and spillovers between the natural world and […]

April 23, 2019/OilPrice.com –    Energy accounts for 12 percent of the value of all U.S. exports to Mexico, and 5 percent of all U.S. imports from Mexico last year. –    Historically, Mexico has exported crude oil to the U.S. and the U.S. has exported gasoline to Mexico.  –    Natural gas […]

April 23, 2019/IMFBlog By Ramzy Al Amine, Jean-François Dauphin, and Alexei Kireyev In 1989, the five Maghreb countries—Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia—established the Arab Maghreb Union to promote cooperation and economic integration. Thirty years later, there is still a largely untapped potential for regional trade among Maghreb countries. This […]