Housing prices have fallen the most in these countries
Global housing markets are retreating after years of steady gains. The Chart of the Week shows widespread declines in inflation-adjusted housing prices for two-thirds of the countries wit...
Prakash Loungani is an advisor in the IMF’s Research Department. He is also an adjunct professor of management at Vanderbilt University’s Owen School, where he has taught in the Executive MBA program since 2001, and at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies.
Global housing markets are retreating after years of steady gains. The Chart of the Week shows widespread declines in inflation-adjusted housing prices for two-thirds of the countries wit...
Al día de hoy, la crisis de la COVID-19 es considerada por muchos la peor calamidad económica desde la Gran Depresión. En enero, el FMI preveía que el crecimiento del ingreso mundial fues...
The COVID-19 crisis is now widely seen as the greatest economic calamity since the Great Depression. In January, the IMF expected global income to grow 3 percent; it is now forecast to fa...
Even some staunch defenders of international trade have long been sceptical of the benefits of financial globalisation (e.g. Bhagwati 1998). Rodrik (1998) famously wrote that letting capi...
Emerging market economies have enjoyed good growth in recent decades but are still far from closing gaps in living standards with advanced economies. Emerging markets also need growth to ...
Históricamente, el crecimiento económico se ha movido en paralelo a la contaminación. Pero, ¿pueden los países romper este vínculo y gestionar el crecimiento al mismo tiempo que reducen l...
Economic growth has traditionally moved in tandem with pollution. But can countries break this link and manage to grow while lowering pollution?
En los últimos 30 años, la desigualdad del ingreso ha aumentado en la mayoría de las economías avanzadas y en muchas economías en desarrollo. ¿Por qué? Gran parte de las investigaciones s...
Hace cuatro años, en el Foro Económico Mundial de Davos, la Directora Gerente del FMI, Christine Lagarde, advirtió sobre los peligros que encerraba la creciente desigualdad, tema que ahor...
During 2007-08, house prices in several countries collapsed, marking the onset of a global financial crisis. The IMF’s Global House Price Index, a simple average of real house prices for ...
Si bien los aumentos de precios mundiales de la vivienda obedecen a restricciones en la oferta, su impacto en el endeudamiento de los hogares podría tener implicaciones negativas para la ...