在4月24日和25日在华盛顿特区举行的国际货币与金融委员会（IMFC）第五十一次会议的背景下，IMFC成员欢迎各方为结束战争和冲突而持续开展的工作，认为和平对于恢复稳定和促进可持续增长至关重要。IMFC成员强调，所有国家都必须完全遵照《联合国宪章》的 ...

随着全球经济体系的重置，美国的关税达到了一个世纪以来的最高水平，其中，最严厉的一些关税措施针对的是亚洲。作为全球贸易的领导者，亚洲对2024年全球增长的贡献接近60%。然而，该地区基于贸易自由化和价值链融入的成功增长模式正面临越来越大的挑战。

This paper discusses two common arguments for the adoption of a UBI; that it can be a more effective way of supporting low-income households when existing safety net programs are inefficient, and that ...

Finance and growth emerged as a distinct field of economics during the last three decades as economists integrated the fields of finance and economic growth and then explored the ramifications of the ...

In response to a request from Saint Lucia’s Central Statistics Office (CSO), a technical assistance (TA) mission was conducted from September 2–13, 2024, to support the development of experimental ...

This paper studies the economic impact of fragmentation of commodity trade. We assemble a novel dataset of production and bilateral trade flows of the 48 most important energy, mineral and ...

This report summarizes the anti-money laundering/combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) measures in place in the Virgin Islands (VI) as at the date of the onsite visit of March 15–30, 2023. It ...

The 2015 Supply Chain Management Review lays out a sound agenda for procurement reform. The ongoing work on a new procurement bill and regulations are an important opportunity to spearhead procurement ...

E-money development has important yet theoretically ambiguous consequences for monetary policy transmission, because nonbank deposit-taking e-money issuers (EMIs) (e.g., mobile network operators) can ...

Achieving gender equality remains a significant challenge, that has only deepened with the on-set of the COVID-19 pandemic. Gender budgeting (GB) can help promote gender equality by applying a gender ...

Income in Andorra has stagnated in the last 50 years. Starting from a very high level compared to peers, it has not grown as fast, as investment and productivity have lagged behind. In this study, we ...

What instruments can governments deploy to prevent fiscal crises in decentralized fiscal systems? This analysis reveals that good public sector institutions, controls by the central government over ...