Youth in the Balance

David E. Bloom
Frustrated and angry, the world's young people are demanding change

IMF podcast: Combating youth unemployment in Africa
 

Making the Grade

Emmanuel Jimenez, Elizabeth M. King, and Jee-Peng Tan
Revamping what and how young people learn is the best way to help them and their home countries succeed

Mozambique education
 

Scarred Generation

Hanan Morsy
In advanced economies, the crisis sparked a huge increase in unemployment among younger workers that will take a long time to abate

Youth speak out

Straight Talk: Stolen Dreams

Nemat Shafik
Our ability to set the world economy straight will decide the fate of today's young people

IMF video: Where are the
jobs? Generation Y asks

Voices of Youth

Around the world, young people speak out

IMF videos: Global youth,
leaders of change
 

Empowering Women Is
Smart Economics

Ana Revenga and Sudhir Shetty
Closing gender gaps also benefits countries as a whole

Gender action plan: Liberia

Also in This Issue

Will the Renminbi Rule?

Eswar Prasad and Lei Ye
The yuan is on track to become more important globally, but is unlikely to challenge the dollar anytime soon

IMF podcast: China rising

Protecting the Whole

Luis I. Jácome and Erlend W. Nier
Keeping individual financial institutions sound is not enough. A broader macroprudential approach is needed

Ratings Game

Panayotis Gavras
Private credit rating agencies have been thrust into providing a public function because regulators have not come up with an alternative

Picture This: Growing
Out of Poverty

Alicia Bárcena
Poverty in Latin America is at its lowest level in 20 years

The Global Land Rush

Rabah Arezki, Klaus Deininger, and Harris Selod
Foreign investors are buying up farmland in developing countries

IMF podcast: Moving beyond agriculture

Snapshot of Another
Monetary Union

Alfred Schipke
Moving forward with reforms should help the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union weather economic uncertainties

And the Walls Came
Tumbling Down

Atish Rex Ghosh interviews IMF historian James Boughton