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“Examining the Gendered and Other Impacts of IMF Surcharges” explored the extent to which the IMF's surcharge policy is consistent with its stated commitment to gender equality and a greener, smarter, and fairer COVID-19 recovery.

Michael Galant and Aliza Khan / 05/17/2022 3:13pm

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International Monetary Fund

Surcharges

World

IMF Projects No Losses if Surcharges Are Removed

Surcharges can be removed safely without threatening the sustainability of the IMF’s finances, while helping reduce debt payments for many developing countries, thereby helping to save and improve the lives of people around the world.

Andrés Arauz and Odd Hanssen / 05/16/2022 12:00am

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Health and Social Programs

Wall Street

Trends in Real Estate Investment Trust Ownership of US Health Care Properties

Policy makers and health care operators should ensure that the REIT business model is compatible with long-term priorities in health care delivery.

Eileen Appelbaum, Joseph Dov Bruch, Tamar Katz, Tarun Ramesh, Rosemary Batt and Thomas C. Tsai / May 13, 2022

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Inequality

Poverty

A Brief Look at Low-Income Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders

CEPR challenges the model minority myth that hides significant numbers within the AAPI population with low incomes that could benefit from government assistance.

Algernon Austin / 05/12/2022 12:00am

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Economic Crisis and Recovery

Economic Growth

Globalization and Trade

The Data Show Our Economy Continues to Grow Quite Nicely

The latest GDP report shows that the main components of final demand, consumption, investment and government expenditures are still growing at a healthy pace.

Dean Baker / 05/09/2022 12:00am

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Economic Crisis and Recovery

Workers

Solid Month of Job Growth in April

The economy added 428,000 jobs in April, while the unemployment rate remained flat at 3.6 percent.

Hayley Brown / 05/06/2022 2:41pm

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Argentina

Brazil

Latin America and the Caribbean

World

¿Hacia una nueva Unasur?

Entre 2018 y 2019, siete gobiernos suramericanos, incluyendo el argentino, se retiraron del tratado constitutivo de la Unión de Naciones Suramericanas (Unasur) y le atestaron un duro golpe a la integración.

Guillaume Long / 05/05/2022 12:00am

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Jobs

Workers

Preview: Unemployment Likely to Hit 50 Year Low

We will likely see a further dip in the unemployment rate. A 0.2 percentage point drop would give us the lowest rate in more than 50 years.

Dean Baker / 05/04/2022 12:00am

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Economic Crisis and Recovery

Economic Growth

Most Price Increases from Inflation Have Gone to Corporate Profits

The inflation panic is causing some Democrats to pivot from social spending to deficit reduction. That’s exactly the wrong approach.

Max B. Sawicky / 05/03/2022 12:00am

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Taking May Off

I will be vacationing for the month, so it is unlikely that I will post anything until the end of the month. See you then.

Dean Baker / 05/01/2022 12:00am

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Economic Crisis and Recovery

Globalization and Trade

International Monetary Fund

Special Drawing Rights

New IMF Trust Shows the Path Toward SDR Rechanneling Through Development Banks

With the design of the Resilience and Sustainability Trust, the IMF has set a standard for SDR liquidity.

Andrés Arauz / 04/30/2022 3:07pm

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Unions

Workers

A May Day Assessment of Union Membership in the United States

The first day of May is International Workers Day. The holiday is meant to commemorate the shared struggle of workers across the globe.

Hayley Brown / 04/29/2022 12:00am

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Economic Crisis and Recovery

The Surge in Imports and the Drop in GDP: Offloading the Ships Lined Up Offshore

Rather than being a bad report with a drop in GDP, this report is overwhelming good news. This rise in inventories is exactly what we want to see if inflation is to be slowed.

Dean Baker / 04/29/2022 12:00am

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Economic Crisis and Recovery

Economic Growth

Trade and Inventories Cause Drop in GDP, Underlying Growth Healthy

Swings in trade complicate the picture.

Dean Baker / 04/28/2022 12:00am

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Economic Crisis and Recovery

Globalization and Trade

There is No Political Constituency for Free Trade, it’s Just a Term Used to Justify Screwing Workers

What passes for free trade is a policy of removing barriers to allow low cost manufactured goods to enter the United States without restrictions. This puts downward pressure on the pay of manufacturing workers.

Dean Baker / 04/28/2022 12:00am

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Economic Crisis and Recovery

President Biden and the Price of Gas

If there is a president to blame for high oil prices it would be Donald Trump. He actually boasted about arranging for OPEC to reduce its production of oil during the pandemic.

Dean Baker / 04/27/2022 12:00am

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Economic Growth

PREVIEW: What to Look for In the First Quarter 2022 GDP Report

The main story in the first quarter is likely to be a sharp slowing in GDP growth from the extraordinary 6.9 percent pace of the fourth quarter of 2021. The biggest factor in this slowing will be a slower pace of inventory accumulation.

Dean Baker / 04/26/2022 12:00am

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Economic Crisis and Recovery

Two Routes to Lower Inflation

Recounting our historical track record in bringing inflation down after surges that came from fundamentally different sources, is not necessarily useful in describing our prospects for bringing down the current inflation spike.

Dean Baker / 04/26/2022 12:00am