COLOMBO, Feb 10 (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Friday welcomed Sri Lanka's policy shift towards a flexible exchange rate, saying it will help contain the trade deficit and ...

Exchange rate flexibility has played a key role in helping countries like Egypt absorb external shocks stemming from rising oil prices and ongoing regional tensions, Tobias Adrian, the Financial ...

This paper investigates the impact of natural disasters on exchange rate movements in different country groups with different exchange rate regimes. Using a panel local projection model with a ...

Growing remittance flows to emerging and developing economies may lead to real exchange rate appreciation and weaken their competitiveness. While the empirical literature finds mixed results about the ...

It is a given in polite economic society that China should move toward a more flexible exchange rate regime. The IMF says so, and the U.S. Treasury has often echoed this point – though more recently, ...

India’s exchange rate framework came under renewed global scrutiny on Wednesday after the International Monetary Fund reclassified the country’s “de facto” regime as a “crawl-like arrangement”, two ...

India and Thailand are among the emerging market sovereigns best positioned to manage future global shocks, supported by ...

Harare, Zimbabwe — The value of Zimbabwe's gold-backed currency plunged 44% Friday on the official market. The sudden drop of the gold backed currency, known as ZiG, began Friday shortly after the ...

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