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The IMF and the Coronavirus

…not precipitate the East Asian crisis. Capital inflows had fueled bank lending and asset prices had soared, while central banks were committed to fixed exchange rates. Once foreign investors became…

Measures of Global Income

…a worker in the host country sends money to family members in her home country, the funds would be counted as personal transfers, which appear in “net secondary income” in…