A crisis like no other. The COVID-19 pandemic triggered an unprecedented global public health and economic crisis, with a tragic loss of over 3 million lives around the world and over
140 million confirmed cases thus far. The ensuing economic fallout has also been severe, with global…
This report evaluates the influence and value added of IMF advice on capital flows focusing on the period since the approval of the IV. Lessons from this evaluation are particularly germane as the global outlook for capital flows following the COVID-19 shock remains highly uncertain. Together…
This evaluation focused on Bank-Fund collaboration in the context of recent IMF pilot initiatives to enhance coverage of inequality, gender, energy/climate, and macro-structural reform in Article IV surveillance.
The 2019 Annual Evaluation Report (AER) of the Operations Evaluation Department (OED) of the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) presents a synthesis of the post-evaluations of IsDB interventions and activities undertaken by OED during 2019. OED is committed to aligning its evaluation functions…
In the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis, central banks in the largest advanced countries innovated aggressively to restart growth and combat persistent deflationary risks, while policymakers elsewhere were faced by spillovers from extremely easy global liquidity conditions. This report…