OPINION/EDITORIAL

Monetary Policy: Currency Arguments to Dominate HOLD Justification

March 26, 2019/Cordros Report With its two-day policy meeting set to conclude today, the monetary policy committee (MPC) clearly faces a somewhat different global and domestic macroeconomic milieu relative to its last policy meeting in January. The remarkably patchy global growth outlook has forced a number of central banks to […]

Waiting and Waiting for the Global Renminbi-Opinion

Citi GPS: Global Perspectives & Solutions | Opinion By David Lubin — Head of Emerging Markets Economics 20 Mar 2019 – ‘Great powers’, says the Nobel-laureate economist Robert Mundell, ‘have great currencies’. So where is China’s? In the years following the Great Financial Crisis things seemed to be looking up […]

Corporate Taxation in the Global Economy

March 25, 2019/IMFBlog By Christine Lagarde The public perception that some large multinational companies pay little tax has led to political demands for urgent action. It is not difficult to see why.  Let me highlight three reasons why a new approach to international corporate taxation is urgent. First, the ease with […]