This transcript was put together from an interview with Alessandro Rebucci on August 7, 2006 and on e-mail exchanges with him and Ashoka Mody between August 28, 2006 and September 8, 2006.

The COVID-19 pandemic brought the global economy to a virtual standstill as many governments placed restrictions on day-to-day business operations and personal activities in order to prevent the ...

Alessandro Rebucci: Policy has an important role to play, as the IMF has repeatedly voiced in what is now called the IMF mantra. In the case of the oil imbalances, there are at least two ways in which ...

SO, WHAT should China do now that Europe's debt crisis seems to be imperiling global growth? Eduardo Lora and Alessandro Rebucci, of the Inter-American development bank, write: Suffering from ...