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In this follow-up volume to A Guide to IMF Stress Testing: Methods and Models the authors look at the stress testing "software."

Finds that short-term risks to financial stability have increased somewhat since the previous Global Financial Stability Report. Medium-term risks are still elevated as financial vulnerabilities, which have built up during the years of accommodative policies.

Describes the world economic outlook as of April 2018, projecting that advanced economies will continue to expand above their potential growth rates before decelerating, while growth in emerging markets in developing economies will rise before levelling off.

The April 2018 edition of Fiscal Monitor is focused on two broad themes: the burden of high global debt and the opportunities and challenges of digital government.

Provides detailed guidance on the implementation of the new Fiscal Transparency Code, which was approved by the IMF Board in 2014. It explains why each principle of the Code is important and describes current trends in implementation of the principles.

This book draws on policy lessons from successful countries that have overcome political economy constraints and reach upper-middle-income emerging market economy status to examine how Senegal can achieve per capita growth rates of four to five percent per year over a 20-year period, as well as lessons for other low-income countries.

Inflation-forecast targeting is state of the art for monetary policy. This book explores first principles, including managing short-term policy trade-offs, outlines efficient operational procedures, and reviews the experiences of Canada, the Czech Republic, and India.

While some inequality is inevitable in a market-based economic system, excessive inequality can erode social cohesion, lead to political polarization, and ultimately lower economic growth. This Fiscal Monitor discusses how fiscal policies can help achieve redistributive objectives.

Demonstrates that the global upswing in economic activity is strengthening, and that global growth, which in 2016 was the weakest since the global financial crisis at 3.2 percent, is projected to rise to 3.7 percent in 2018. The growth forecast for 2018 is 0.1 percentage point stronger compared with projections earlier this year.

Provides detailed data on transactions in revenue, expense, net acquisition of assets and liabilities, other economic flows, and balances of assets and liabilities of general government and its subsectors. The data are compiled according to the framework of the 2014 Government Finance Statistics Manual, which provides for several summary measures of government fiscal performance.

This book provides a dianosis of the central economic and financial challenges facing Caribbean policymakers.

Finds that the global financial system continues to strengthen in response to policy support, regulatory enhancements, and the cyclical upturn in growth. It also includes a chapter that examines the short- and medium-term implications for economic growth and financial stability of the past decades' rise in household debt.

These Direction of Trade Statistics publications provide data on the country and area distribution of countries' exports and imports as reported by themselves or by their partners.

Contains detailed statistics on all aspects of international and domestic finance. The IFS Yearbook contains available annual data covering 12 years for countries appearing in the monthly issues of International Financial Statistics (IFS). Additional time series in country tables and some additional tables of area and world aggregates are included in the Yearbook.

The Fiscal Monitor was launched in 2009 to survey and analyse the latest public finance developments, update fiscal implications of the crisis and medium-term fiscal projections, and assess policies to put public finances on a sustainable footing. It is prepared twice a year by the IMF's Fiscal Affairs Department.

Clearly, great macroeconomic challenges lie ahead. The World Economic Outlook provides readers with key insights into how to view unprecedented global imbalances, respond to capital account crises caused by abrupt shifts in global asset allocations, and evaluate the opportunities for all member countries, especially low-income countries, to grow.

Provides an assessment of global financial markets and addresses emerging market financing in a global context. The Global Financial Stability Report focuses on relevant contemporary issues and regularly contains special features on structural or systemic issues that are critical to international financial stability.

Economic growth remains solid in much of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe (CESEE). Given mediocre prospects for potential growth and a cyclical rebound near completion outside the CIS, current growth may be difficult to sustain. Policies need to strike the right balance between supporting near-term growth and rebuilding fiscal buffers.

The outlook for the Asia-Pacific region remains robust - the strongest in the world, in fact - and recent data point to a pickup in momentum. The near-term outlook, however, is clouded with significant uncertainty, and risks, on balance, remain slanted to the downside. Medium-term growth faces secular headwinds, including from population aging and sluggish productivity.

Contains more than 425,000 data series including aggregate and detailed information for about 200 countries and reporting entities. BOP delivers data on international economic transactions including total goods, services, factor income, current and capital transfers, and changes in an economy's external financial claims and liabilities.

Growth momentum in sub-Saharan Africa remains fragile, marking a break from the rapid expansion witnessed since the turn of the millennium. 2016 was a difficult year for many countries, with regional growth dipping to 1.4%. A modest recovery in growth of about 2.6% is expected in 2017.

Assesses the extent of economic and financial integration among the East African Community (EAC) along a number of dimensions and, where possible, whether integration has increased in the wake of the major regional integration policy milestones.

After publishing Who's the Old Broad at the Bar? in 2010 and Funkytown in 2011, I knew a third book of essays was in the cards. There was more to say. And since life is a great mix of the sad and sweet, I hope to have captured more incidents from my life with some humor and humility. "The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination."

This annual publication provides detailed data on transactions in revenue, expense, net acquisition of assets and liabilities, other economic flows, and balances of assets and liabilities of general government and its subsectors. The data are compiled according to the framework of the 2014 Government Finance Statistics Manual.