Persistent energy shocks, record public debt and the rapid rise of artificial intelligence defined the agenda at this year’s ...
It is becoming increasingly clear that nature loss is posing systemic risks to economic and financial stability globally.
Can Europe survive? The question is metaphysical. The continent will survive as a land mass, but will it prosper?
Delegates at this year’s International Monetary Fund-World Bank meetings in Bangkok, Thailand, should be filled with angst.
Latin America’s transition finance challenge is as much about transforming its economies as it is about mobilising capital.
Leverage is building in the non-bank financial sector where an apparently manageable market stress may easily turn into ...
A great deal can happen in 10 years. Few areas illustrate this more clearly than the development of Africa’s financial markets, where sustained research, reform and regional competition have helped ...
Analysis of the Fund shows shrinking role and unchanged adequacy With the euro area crisis in full swing in April 2012, dozens of governments collectively committed more than $430bn in new resources ...
Ahead of the International Monetary Fund-World Bank meetings in Bangkok, the People’s Bank of China published a welcome paper on its view on the renminbi exchange rate. It makes valid points about the ...
According to the old parable, a frog placed in tepid water that is heating slowly lingers until it is too late and boils to death. Is the parable applicable to the future of independent central banks?
Ten years of measuring how African markets function – the next 10 must measure what they finance At the launch of the 10th edition of the Absa Africa Financial Markets Index in Bangkok, I called AFMI ...