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  • Monday, 16 May, 2022
    Global inflation
    Inflation returns to haunt Brazilians

    Memories of the 1980s and 1990s loom as prices rise at the fastest pace in two decades

  • Monday, 2 May, 2022
    News in-depthGlobal Economy
    World Bank and IMF balance sheets strained by global crises

    Multilateral institutions and donors differ on challenges posed by conflict in Ukraine, food inflation and climate change

  • Sunday, 1 May, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    EU looks to provide further emergency lending to Ukraine

    European Commission draws up new plans but Kyiv still faces substantial financing gap

  • Saturday, 30 April, 2022
    Currencies
    Pressure on Chinese renminbi hits other emerging market currencies

    Gains for commodity-rich nations have waned on economic growth concerns

  • Wednesday, 20 April, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    Ukraine needs $15bn over next three months, says IMF

    Kristalina Georgieva urges fund’s membership to provide aid to economy battered by Russia’s invasion

  • Monday, 11 April, 2022
    InterviewWar in Ukraine
    Ukraine appeals for financial support to ensure country’s ‘survival’

    Finance minister seeks immediate aid from allies to plug deficit amounting to several billion dollars a month

  • Saturday, 9 April, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    IMF opens account to channel donor funds to Ukraine

    Aid to be used to help Kyiv ‘meet its balance of payments’ and ‘help stabilise its economy’

  • Friday, 8 April, 2022
    Emerging market investing
    Emerging market fund managers face worsening outflows

    Ashmore among those facing withdrawals as investors weigh rising rates and geopolitical events, says BofA

  • Thursday, 31 March, 2022
    Global Economy
    Russia sanctions threaten to erode dominance of US dollar, says IMF

    Ukraine war could cause more ‘fragmentation’ in global financial system, warns top official

  • Tuesday, 29 March, 2022
    Emerging markets
    Ukraine war will increase poverty in developing economies, warns World Bank

    Conflict’s disruption to trade threatens a debt crisis in dozens of low- and middle-income countries

  • Thursday, 10 March, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    Russia has destroyed $100bn of Ukraine’s economic assets, says Zelensky adviser

    Financial assistance from IMF and others will not cover the devastating hit to country’s output, economists say

  • Friday, 4 March, 2022
    Central bank intervention
    Eastern Europe central banks step in as currencies slide

    Interventions and interest rate rises tackle currency weakness sparked by invasion of Ukraine

  • Monday, 28 February, 2022
    Markets InsightEmerging markets
    Emerging markets recoil from Ukraine war shock

    Russian invasion adds to concerns over impact of higher prices for oil and other commodities

  • Friday, 25 February, 2022
    War in Ukraine: free to read
    How will Russia’s invasion of Ukraine hit the global economy?

    Soaring energy prices alone could tip the world into a second recession in three years

  • Monday, 21 February, 2022
    G20
    Rich nations’ $60bn pledges to developing countries fall short of expectations

    Pandemic recovery donations from G20’s special drawing rights fail to reach $100bn target

  • Sunday, 20 February, 2022
    Ghana
    Pandemic financial response ignored poor countries’ concerns, says Ghana minister

    Measures aggravated problems for many countries now struggling to service debts, says Ken Ofori-Atta

  • Tuesday, 15 February, 2022
    The Big Read
    Emerging markets: all risk and few rewards?

    As inflation spirals and growth rates slow, the case for investing in emerging markets has rarely been weaker

  • Wednesday, 9 February, 2022
    News in-depthGlobal Economy
    Emerging markets signal end to aggressive rate-raising cycles

    Brazil, Russia and others jumped ahead of the Fed to control inflation but may have stifled growth

  • Monday, 17 January, 2022
    Emerging markets
    Poorest countries face $11bn surge in debt repayments

    World Bank warns of risk of ‘disorderly defaults’ as pandemic-era relief scheme expires

  • Tuesday, 11 January, 2022
    Emerging markets
    Two-speed pandemic recovery will worsen inequality, World Bank warns

    Economic impact on developing countries will leave them further behind rich nations

  • Thursday, 30 December, 2021
    Emerging markets
    Chinese loans deter poor nations from seeking debt relief, says Paris Club chair

    Creditor body’s Emmanuel Moulin says bilateral borrowing risks disrupting efforts to ease pandemic-hit finances

  • Sunday, 19 December, 2021
    News in-depthChinese politics & policy
    How China’s global ambitions almost unseated an IMF chief

    Beijing has unusual dual-track strategy to influence the multilateral bodies that underpin western capitalism

  • Friday, 17 December, 2021
    News in-depthMarkets
    The biggest market moments of 2021

    From the GameStop saga to the Archegos debacle — these are the events that shaped the year

  • Thursday, 9 December, 2021
    Capital markets
    Emerging markets hit by abrupt slowdown in new foreign investment

    Flows into asset class ‘dry up’ on worries over US monetary policy and Omicron

  • Wednesday, 24 November, 2021
    News in-depthTurkish economy
    What the lira collapse means for Turkey’s economy

    Analysts warn of increased dollarisation, hyperinflation and the rising cost of debt

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