By Viral Acharya, David Backus, and Raghu Sundaram
There is a tendency in a crisis to throw out the rulebook: we are in a unique situation, some will say, and that calls for unique measures. In fact, financial crises are recurring events whose history has taught us some clear lessons. Continue reading "Government money should have strings attached"
By Morris Goldstein
With a global recession in prospect, now is the time to strengthen the provisions of the International Monetary Fund’s old Compensatory Financing Facility and to put it back into action. Continue reading "Dig into the IMF’s tool box to tackle the crisis"
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With most of the world’s big economies now officially out of recession, the Financial Times examines the legacy of the worst global economic crisis since the 1930s. See our in depth page: Beyond the financial crisis 
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