The core mandate of central banks is to control inflation. But in the process of doing it, many other problems can emerge. Economies can tank, leading to job and output losses, stock markets and property markets can melt down and banks can fail. In emerging markets, even currencies can crash. How central bankers can deal with such multiple...

SECURING both price stability and financial stability cannot be done through monetary policy alone, but requires integration with other policy areas, said Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) managing director Ravi Menon on Friday (May 26). Speaking at the 10th Asian Monetary Policy Forum at Shangri-La Singapore, he advocated an integrated...

Singapore, 25 May 2023…The 10th Asian Monetary Policy Forum (AMPF) will take place in Singapore today and tomorrow, bringing together leading policymakers and academics to focus on the challenges confronting monetary policy against the current macroeconomic and financial landscape. This year’s AMPF returns as a fully...

Singapore, 26 May 2022…The 9th Asian Monetary Policy Forum (AMPF) will take place in Singapore today and tomorrow, bringing together leading policymakers and academics to focus on issues confronting the conduct of monetary policy in today’s complex environment. After two years of meeting virtually, the hosts are delighted to welcome many...

Singapore, 26 May 2021… The Asian Monetary Policy Forum (AMPF) convenes today for the eighth year. MAS and the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) have organised a conference for the Special Edition of the AMPF and MAS-BIS Conference on "Macro-Financial Stability Policy in a Globalised World: Lessons from International Experience"...

Mr Agustín Carstens, General Manager, Bank for International Settlements, ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon and welcome to this year’s special edition of the Asian Monetary Policy Forum featuring the MAS-BIS Conference on Macro-Financial Stability. The origins of this conference go back to a conversation that Agustín and I had about 18 months ago...

(Bloomberg) -- The global economy is recovering more slowly than expected from the coronavirus pandemic and will bear lingering scars from the experience, according to the International Monetary Fund. The IMF is set to release economic growth projections June 24 that “will be, very likely, worse than what we had” in April...

由于世界各国从2019冠状病毒疾病疫情中重启经济面临重大不确定性，国际货币基金组织很可能进一步下调全球今年的经济展望。国际货币基金组织（IMF）首席经济学家戈皮纳特（Gita Gopinath）昨天在第七届亚洲货币政策论坛（Asian Monetary Policy Forum）通过视讯发表演讲时说：“我们正从最新的高频数据中观察各国经济复苏的形势。..."

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said it may again downgrade its already pessimistic outlook for the global economy this month. Given the possibility of a further decline in consumption, more job losses and the risk of a fresh wave of bankruptcies, there is a lot of concern about the path and shape of recovery...

THE global economy is recovering more slowly than expected from the coronavirus pandemic and will bear lingering scars from the experience, said the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The IMF is set to release economic growth projections on June 24 that "will be, very likely, worse than what we had" in April, even as there remains “profound...

由于世界各国从2019冠状病毒疾病疫情中重启经济面临重大不确定性，国际货币基金组织（IMF）很可能进一步下调全球今年的经济展望。在今早通过视讯形式举行的第七届亚洲货币政策论坛（Asian Monetary Policy Forum），国际货币基金组织首席经济学家戈皮纳特（Gita Gopinath）说：“我们正从最新发布的数据中观察各国经济复苏的形势如何..."

The global economy is recovering more slowly than expected from the coronavirus pandemic and will bear lingering scars from the experience, according to the International Monetary Fund. The IMF is set to release economic growth projections June 24 that “will be, very likely, worse than what we had” in April, even as there remains “profound...

The inaugural Asian Monetary Policy Forum (AMPF) convenes in Singapore today at the Shangri-La Hotel, in conjunction with and under the auspices of the annual conference of the Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research (ABFER), which will be held from 26-29 May 2014. The AMPF is co-organised and funded by the University of Chicago Booth...

SINGAPORE will play host to several of the world's prominent finance and economics experts as they come together to form Asia's largest economics re­search organisation here, aimed at giving an intellec­tual boost to the local finan­cial industry. The Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Re­search (ABFER) will be an independent Singapore-based org...