Outlook 2025: Global economy will underwhelm amid huge uncertainty |
By Mark Sobel |
The global economy will underwhelm in 2025. Policy-makers may be satisfied with global growth rates around 3%. But they are failing to address fundamental challenges and the global economy is muddling along, a far cry from the 4% and higher average rates in past decades. And US President-elect Donald Trump’s trade policies could deal a rude shock to the outlook. Read the full commentary → |
Outlook 2025: An uphill battle for gender parity in financial leadership
By Arunima Sharan
The financial sector stands at a crossroads. 2025 could either solidify progress towards parity or witness a regression in representation. Success hinges on whether organisations can maintain a focus on gender equality amid competing priorities and external challenges.
MEETINGS
Public finances, policy and politics: the implication for debt sustainability in 2025
Wednesday 22 January, Live broadcast
This panel discussion, organised by OMFIF in partnership with Fitch Ratings, outlines the outlook for public finances in advanced and emerging market economies and the impact of policy and politics on sovereign debt trajectories.
ON DEMAND
Risks and opportunities for investment-grade credit in 2025
Flavio Carpenzano, investment director, fixed income at Capital Group, joins Burhan Khadbai, head of content for OMFIF’s Sovereign Debt Institute, to look back at the performance of the investment-grade credit market in 2024 and at the outlook for the year ahead.
LATEST REPORT
Gold and the new world disorder
Building on OMFIF’s long-run analysis on the ‘Seven Ages of Gold’, this report, in partnership with Commodity Discovery Fund and GoldRepublic, explores new developments in central bank gold policies.