This paper, prepared by a working group of IMF staff, provides a preliminary assessment of the risks and potential impact to the global economy and financial system from a possible avian flu pandemic, discusses the IMF’s role in helping member countries prepare their economic and financial...

(IEO), which provides an early evaluation of the Fund's emergency response to the initial stage of the COVID-19 pandemic and seeks to draw lessons from the experience for responding to possible future global crises. They highlighted the report's key finding that the Fund's response was effective...

This study aimed to identify the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on managerial accounting and its adjustments in financial markets to help business society deal with their businesses and companies during the pandemic. This study was conducted in Quezon City, Philippines, employing the...

The chapter engages in a comparison between the Eurozone crisis and the pandemic crisis. The cartography of both crises follows two axes: endogeneity versus exogeneity, and symmetric versus asymmetric effects. It then focuses on the reactions of EU institutions to the pandemic crisis and their...

This report presents an overview of Algeria's recent macroeconomic developments and of its short-term economic outlook. The report is divided into two chapters. Chapter one presents the country's macroeconomic developments in 2019, which establishes the context for the unprecedented developments...

This paper updates the analysis of the global macroeconomic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic in earlier papers by the authors with data as of late October 2020. It also extends the focus to Asian economies and explores four alternative policy interventions that are coordinated across all...