IMF COUNTRY FOCUS March 30, 2022/IMF Cartago Province, Costa Rica. Care teams are assigned to rural communities across the country. (Credit: alexeys/iStock by Getty Images) March 9, 2022 Related Links Finance & Development: A Life Well Lived Costa Rica’s President: “No Growth and Poverty Reduction Without Economic Stability” Costa Rica […]

(PHOTO: THAWEESAK SAENGNGOEN/ISTOCK BY GETTY IMAGES) March 30, 2022/IMFBlog By Tobias Adrian, Gita Gopinath, Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, Ceyla Pazarbasioglu, and Rhoda Weeks-Brown Capital flows can help countries to grow and to share risks. But economies with large external debts can be vulnerable to financial crises and deep recessions when capital flows out. External liabilities are riskiest […]

(PHOTO: AHMAD HALABISAZ/NEWSCOM) March 30, 2022/IMFBlog By Jihad Azour and Christoph Duenwald Climate change is inflicting crippling losses in the Middle East and Central Asia, with poor and conflict-affected countries suffering the most from higher temperatures and extreme weather events. In any given year since 2000, climate disasters have killed more than 2,600 […]