The Road to Digital Economy: The Role of Blockchain in Partnership with IMF

Brief

This session will explore the opportunities and limitations of blockchain through the lens of a diversity of applications, as well as their implications for fiscal and monetary policy, financial sector regulation, and far-reaching positive public interest. The session will close with concrete and pragmatic considerations for how policy makers, supervisors, and regulators should approach these developments to realize their positive transformative potential and, at the same time, manage evolving risks.