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The global economic recovery is progressing better than expected, but the speed of recovery varies, as outlined in the April 2010 World Economic Outlook. Some countries, notably in Asia, are off to a strong start, but growth in others is constrained by lasting damage to the financial sector and to household balance sheets. The challenge for policymakers is to ensure a smooth transition of demand, while maintaining supports that promote growth and employment. There is also a need to contain and reduce public debt and repair and reform the financial sector. This issue of the WEO also explores two other key challenges in the wake of the Great Recession: how to spur job creation in the face of likely high and persistent unemployment in advanced economies, and how countries that previously ran large current account surpluses or deficits can promote growth by rebalancing external and domestic demand.

Business & Economics --- Economic Theory --- Exports and Imports --- Foreign Exchange --- Labor --- Macroeconomics --- Public Finance --- Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search --- Current Account Adjustment --- Short-term Capital Movements --- Employment --- Unemployment --- Wages --- Intergenerational Income Distribution --- Aggregate Human Capital --- Aggregate Labor Productivity --- Labor Economics Policies --- Fiscal Policy --- Labour --- income economics --- International economics --- Public finance & taxation --- Currency --- Foreign exchange --- Current account surpluses --- Employment subsidies --- Unemployment rate --- Balance of payments --- Economic theory --- Prices --- Manpower policy --- United States

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Young people, hardest hit by the global economic downturn, are speaking out and demanding change. F&D looks at the need to urgently address the challenges facing youth and create opportunities for them. Harvard professor David Bloom lays out the scope of the problem and emphasizes the importance of listening to young people in "Youth in the Balance." "Making the Grade" looks at how to teach today's young people what they need to get jobs. IMF Deputy Managing Director, Nemat Shafik shares her take on the social and economic consequences of youth unemployment in our "Straight Talk" column. "Scarred Generation" looks at the effects the global economic crisis had on young workers in advanced economies, and we hear directly from young people across the globe in "Voices of Youth." Renminbi's rise, financial system regulation, and boosting GDP by empowering women. Also in the magazine, we examine the rise of the Chinese currency, look at the role of the credit rating agencies, discuss how to boost the empowerment of women, and present our primer on macroprudential regulation, seen as increasingly important to financial stability. People in economics - C. Fred Bergsten, American Globalist Back to basics - The multi-dimensional role of banks in our financial systems.

Finance: General --- Labor --- Macroeconomics --- Money and Monetary Policy --- Banks --- Depository Institutions --- Micro Finance Institutions --- Mortgages --- Education: General --- Economics of Gender --- Non-labor Discrimination --- Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search --- Monetary Systems --- Standards --- Regimes --- Government and the Monetary System --- Payment Systems --- Finance --- Labour --- income economics --- Education --- Monetary economics --- Gender studies --- women & girls --- Credit rating agencies --- Women --- Unemployment --- Credit ratings --- Money --- United States

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This issue of F&D looks at the growing role of emerging markets. Analysis by the IMF's Ayhan Kose and Eswar Prasad, professor of trade policy at Cornell University, argues that their economic ascendance will enable emerging markets such as Brazil, China, India, and Russia to play a more significant part in global economic governance and take on more responsibility for economic and financial stability. And Vivek Arora and Athanasios Vamvakidis measure how China's economy is increasingly affecting the rest of the world not just its neighbors and main trading partners. In addition, F&D examines a variety of topics that are particularly relevant as the world struggles to shake off the crisis. Alan Blinder and Mark Zandi look at the positive effects of stimulus in the United States. Without it, they say, the United States would still be in recession. IMF researchers look at how countries can get debt under control, and what happens when government debt is downgraded. Other articles examine the human costs of unemployment, how inequality can lead over time to financial crisis, and what changes in the way banks do business could mean for the financial system. Two articles look at Islamic banking, which was put to the test during the global crisis and proved its mettle, and in Faces of the Crisis Revisited, we continue to track how the recession affected several individuals around the world. This issue of F&D profiles Princeton economic theorist Avinash Dixit in the regular People in Economics feature, and Back to Basics looks at externalities.

Finance: General --- Financial Risk Management --- Labor --- Macroeconomics --- Islamic Banking and Finance --- Other Economic Systems: Public Economics --- Financial Economics --- General Financial Markets: General (includes Measurement and Data) --- Debt --- Debt Management --- Sovereign Debt --- Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search --- Fiscal Policy --- Finance --- Banking --- Labour --- income economics --- International economics --- Islamic banking --- Emerging and frontier financial markets --- Public debt --- Unemployment --- Exports --- Financial services industry --- Banks and banking --- Islamic countries --- Fiscal policy --- Debts, Public --- United States

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For the latest thinking about the international financial system, monetary policy, economic development, poverty reduction, and other critical issues, subscribe to Finance & Development (F&D). This lively quarterly magazine brings you in-depth analyses of these and other subjects by the IMF’s own staff as well as by prominent international experts. Articles are written for lay readers who want to enrich their understanding of the workings of the global economy and the policies and activities of the IMF.

Developing countries -- Finance -- Periodicals. --- Economic assistance -- Periodicals. --- International finance -- Periodicals. --- International finance. --- Investments: Energy --- Labor --- Macroeconomics --- Industries: Energy --- Energy: General --- Employment --- Unemployment --- Wages --- Intergenerational Income Distribution --- Aggregate Human Capital --- Aggregate Labor Productivity --- Education: General --- Fiscal Policy --- Macroeconomics: Production --- Labour --- income economics --- Investment & securities --- Petroleum, oil & gas industries --- Civil service & public sector --- Oil --- Education --- Civil service --- Oil production --- Natural gas sector --- Petroleum industry and trade --- Fiscal policy --- Financial services industry --- United States