Former LatAm governors propose new IMF liquidity tool

Emerging market fund would be aimed at stabilising bond markets during liquidity crises

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Leading Latin American economists, including two former central bank governors, have called on the International Monetary Fund to set up a new fund for emerging markets.

Their proposal, published on October 15 by the Center for Global Development’s Latin American Committee on Macroeconomic and Financial Issues, calls for a new tool to provide liquidity. Rather than providing loans to specific countries, its aim would be to stabilise bond markets and prevent turmoil in one country spilling over

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