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Place: Virtual meeting Documents Agenda Report of the Committee for Development Policy (E/2022/33, Supplement No. 13)
عربي, 中文, English, Français, Русский, Español Corrigendum (E/2022/33/Corr.1) to the Report of the Committee for Development Policy
عربي, 中文, English, Français, Русский, Español Opening Statements Statement by H.E. Ambassador Collen Vixen Kelapile, President of United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Statement by Liu Zhenmin, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs Open Session on ECOSOC Interaction 25 February 2022, 10:00 - 11:30 AM (NY time)
The open session informed the ECOSOC membership on the…
Since the onset of COVID-19, central banks around the world, in tandem with fiscal authorities, have taken extraordinary measures to mitigate economic fallouts and support recovery. While monetary authorities have generally followed the global financial crisis playbook, the scope, size, and speed of the policy responses to the pandemic have been unprecedented. Since many central banks?especially in developed countries?had less room to reduce interest rates than in 2008, they have relied more heavily on unconventional monetary policy tools to stimulate economic activity, most notably large-scale asset purchases. Central bank purchasing of longer-term financial assets,… UN DESA Policy Brief No. 129: The monetary policy response to COVID-19: the role of asset purchase programmes