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Limited global financial market reaction to Fed's interest rate move IMF includes Chinese renminbi in the SDR basket Monetary tightening in Western Asia and Latin America in response to Fed's first rate hike in seven years

Pingfan Hong was appointed Director of the Development Policy and Analysis Division (DPAD) effective 1 July 2014.A Chinese national, Pingfan Hong joined the United Nations in 1989 and has since worked mostly in the areas of economic research and policy ...

DESA/DPAD, in collaboration with the Project LINK Research Center of the University of Toronto, held its annual Expert Group Meeting on the World Economy (Project LINK conference) from October 21 to 23 in New York.The conference was attended by some 80 ...