OPINION/EDITORIAL

Mission Impossible: Predicting The Oil Market

March 25, 2022/OilPrice.com It’s been another very busy week for oil and gas markets as Putin threatened European gas imports, a storm knocked a major oil pipeline offline, and a Saudi oil terminal came under missile attack. Brent is back above $120 per barrel as bullish sentiment remains dominant, but […]

Reaping Rewards from Climate Adaptation

March 25, 2022/IMF Weekend Read In today’s edition we focus, among other things, on the rewards countries can reap by adapting to climate change, the impact of the war in Ukraine on the world economy, especially Europe and Africa, the untapped potential of personal income tax, learning losses during the […]

Special Purpose Entities Shed Light on the Drivers of Foreign Direct Investment

(Image: immimagery/Adobe Stock) CHART OF THE WEEK March 25, 2022/IMFBlog By Evrim Bese Goksu, Theo Bikoi, and Padma Hurree Gobin Conventional wisdom on capital flows holds that foreign direct investment is for the long-term, while securities and other flows may be more volatile. However, as Olivier Blanchard and Julien Acalin […]