Dialing down uncertainty, reducing vulnerabilities, and investing in innovation, can help deliver durable economic gains ...

Policymakers should strengthen oversight of nonbank financial intermediaries, whose increasing interconnectedness with banks ...

Washington, DC. Mr. Hervé Ndoba, Central African Republic’s Minister of Finance and Chair of the African Caucus, and Ms. Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF ...

On 14 October 2025, the Regional Financing Arrangements (RFAs) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) marked a significant milestone with the convening of their 10th Annual High-Level Dialogue.

Stronger fiscal and monetary policy frameworks and more developed local currency debt markets have supported emerging market ...

Commodities play a central yet often underappreciated role in shaping macroeconomic fluctuations across both advanced economies (AEs) and emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs), with the ...

Our analysis, in the context of Brazil’s latest yearly economic review (the Article IV consultation), shows that concerns ...

Policymakers should enhance market surveillance through systemic risk monitoring including stress testing and scenario ...

Spending more efficiently and reallocating public funds toward investment and innovation can be a powerful growth strategy ...

Lithuania has seen strong income convergence since regaining independence, but in recent years progress in this respect has stalled as the contribution of capital deepening and TFP growth to labor ...

IMF staff and the Sri Lankan authorities have reached staff-level agreement on economic policies to conclude the Fifth Review of Sri Lanka’s reform program supported by the IMF’s Extended Fund ...

The IMF welcomes the opportunity to resume Article IV consultations with Yemen after an 11-year hiatus. The conflict that began in 2014 halted a three-year Extended Credit Facility (ECF) arrangement, ...