In recent years, Fund staff has prepared cross-country analyses of macroeconomic vulnerabilities in low-income countries, focusing on the risk of sharp declines in economic growth and of debt distress. We discuss routes to broadening this focus by adding several macroeconomic and macrofinancial...

The starters -- Development strategy: the fountainhead of macroeconomic policies -- Fiscal policy: no longer the big brother -- Monetary policy: the black box of complexities -- Exchange rate and openness: the world is one! -- Financial stability: a belated recognition of the "core" -- The desserts