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Opening Remarks of the Managing Director at the 11th IMF Statistical Forum: Measuring Money in the Digital Age
video Good morning, and welcome. Let me start by thanking Bert and the Statistics Department team for always taking on the big questions of how we actually quantify our rapidly evolving world economy. And all of you will no doubt continue this great tradition over the next two days as you discuss “Measuring Money in the Digital Age.” Now is the right time to do this—accelerated by the pandemic, mobile payments are nearly everywhere in many advanced and emerging economies. A large and growing number of countries are steaming ahead with development and deployment of Central bank digital currencies, or CBDCs. ... (full story)
