IMF eLibrary

The International Monetary Fund's (IMF) eLibrary simplifies analysis and research with direct access to the IMF’s periodicals, books, working papers and studies, and data and statistical tools. You will find information and perspective on macroeconomics, globalization, development, trade and aid, technical assistance, demographics, emerging markets, policy advice, poverty reduction, and so much more.  It will allow you to see the content of the institution into a single unified platform where you can access:

• More than 15,000 publications, all books, major reports, journals, country reports and working papers.

• More than one million data series, international financial statistics, balance of payments statistics , statistics on the geographical distribution of trade and public finance statistics.

• Microsites organized by country and topic, specialized resources on Latin America, China, India, Russia, capital flows, inclusive growth and other issues.

• AREAER Online, The Annual Report on Exchange Arrangements and Exchange Restrictions tracks the exchange rate and trade regimes of all members of the IMF.

• IFM data:  Since 2015, to support the move to free data, the IMF introduced a new platform that will improve on-line dissemination. It comes with portals and dynamic visualization to showcase datasets which became available free. The datasets are: International Financial Statistics, Balance of Payment Statistics, Government Finance Statistics, and Direction of Trade Statistics. They will complement other datasets which were already available on a new platform.

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URL:  ://www.elibrary.imf.org/

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Note:  IP access via ECLAC Network and VPN from all Headquarters and Regional Offices.  The information in the electronic resources subscribed by the Library is for the exclusive use of ECLAC Staff, and for educational and research purposes. Redistribution is forbidden.