#Kazakhstan pensions nearly halved in the past decade, despite strong economic growth -- on average real GDP growth in Kazakhstan was 4%, the highest in the sample of countries in @SchneiderO_IIF The second best economic growth of 3.3% was in #Poland, where pensions remained high

What's so scary about #inequality? Listen to the latest IMFPodcast with Jonathan Ostry ow.ly/KUyt30mtmjG

According to the high-frequency monthly output indicator, #Russia #GDP in 2018 increased by 1.5%, similar to 2017.

More than a decade since the GFC, sovereign ratings have worsened for many sovereigns. Number of countries by Fitch rating in 2009 and 2019.

La misión del Artículo IV del FMI evaluará con el #BCRSV los desarrollos económicos y financieros, y discutirá los principales aspectos de política económica y financiera del país, así como de los desafíos y riesgos que se le presentan en el contexto global.

On #WorldAutismAwarenessDay we still don't know how many children/adults with autism are in #Uzbekistan. Many still conflate autism with illness and very few people understand autism. We lack NGOs capable to deliver social services and support for them. This should be changed!

The latest World Economic Outlook #WEO projects slowdown in growth in 2019 for 70% of the world economy. ow.ly/NoR030omYAz

The logic behind the core measure is very clear and has been explained many times over the years. Here's my version. Happily, we never did slide into Japan-style deflation, but the argument stands 2/ krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/26/cor…

Народ, милоты и чистосердечия пост. Тут в переходе на Славянском бульваре стоит женщина с объявлением «Обучаю шахматам». Учит детей и взрослых. Ретвитните пожалуйста - может заинтересуется кто. Номер телефона на второй фотке.

Relative to the rest of the word, 2017 real GDP per capita in PPP terms in #Russia and #Kazakhstan have not recovered to the 1990 positions. In #Ukraine, income compression didn't stop. Gradualism in #Uzbekistan softened the hard-landing, but a pickup was also slow and delayed.

Here’s what Mexico’s immigration crackdown looks like from one checkpoint under a highway overpass just north of the Guatemala border: washingtonpost.com/world/the_amer…

John Nash after remission from madness: “This is not entirely a matter of joy...Rationality...imposes a limit on a person’s concept of his relation to the cosmos..Without his ‘madness’ Zarathustra would have been only another of the...billions...who lived & [was] then forgotten.”

#JohnsHopkins Global Health Security Index ranks the Baltic countries as the most prepared for an outbreak of #COVID2019. The least prepared is #Turkmenistan, which closed all the borders. The #Russia|n preparedness ranks below China, especially on detection (see spiderchart)

"Megi Gogitidze- ვიცი დაგღალე (vici daggale)" на YouTube youtu.be/fw-GQjs1tpw

Today, the IMF Executive Board approved US$389 million disbursement to help El Salvador meet the urgent financing needs stemming from the #COVID19 pandemic. This represents the first IMF lending disbursement to the country in over three decades. ow.ly/txol50zeiRj

New Working Paper in the IMF WP series #Fintech Potential for #Remittance Transfers: A #CentralAmerica Perspective. Muhammad Naseem (Cerdi-UCA-CNRS) with Julia Bersch, Jean Francois Clevy, Esther Perez Ruiz & Yorbol Yakhshilikov (IMF). #financialinclusion bit.ly/3jx94Nj

Glad to share the achieved milestone in the study of evolution of remittances during the COVID-19 pandemic, with great team. #COVID19 #remit imf.org/en/Publication…

Remittances to CAPDR and Mexico hit record levels during the pandemic, driven by rising US wages and unemployment insurance relief imf.org/en/News/Articl…

Please tune in this Thursday at 11 a.m. ET for my discussion with Martin Wolf on sovereign debt.