The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted how people interact with one another and their surrounding environments. Hence, it is not surprising that it has impacted how financial services and products are accessed and used. The first edition of our COVID-19 research, The Rapid Assessment Study, was...

A growing share of emerging markets (EMs) uses hybrid versions of inflation targeting that differ from the IT regimes of the OECD countries. Real exchange rate and international reserve changes affect the policy interest rates in commodity countries, aiming to stabilize their real exchange rate...