The members of the International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC) have asked Mr. Mohammed Aljadaan, Saudi Arabia’s Minister for Finance, to extend his term as Chair of the Committee by one year ...

In less than seven years, the global economy has been subjected to an exceptional sequence of events. The pandemic and the ensuing disruptions to global supply chains; wars in Ukraine and the Middle ...

Faced with heightened vulnerabilities, policymakers should contain leverage, strengthen debt sustainability, and harden cyber ...

This paper proposes a new high-frequency structural vector autoregression model that can disentangle the drivers of oil and natural gas prices in real time. In particular, it separately identifies ...

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IMF staff and the Zambian authorities have reached a staff-level agreement on a package of economic policies and reforms that could support a new 36-month arrangement under the Extended Credit ...

Budget execution has been slow so far this year, reflecting administrative bottlenecks. To support the recovery, the authorities intend to accelerate the execution of public investment while sticking ...

IMF staff and the Nigerien authorities reached staff-level agreement on the final review of the economic program supported by the Extended Credit Facility (ECF), a new 38-month ECF-supported program, ...

On September 14, 2026, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund concluded the consideration of the 2026 Article IV consultation for the Maldives.

Seven months into the war in the region, the energy supply shock has been contained—in no small part thanks to your decisive ...

Realizing tokenized markets’ potential depends on legal and regulatory clarity, greater interoperability, appropriate ...

The IMF Executive Board approved a 36-month arrangement under the Extended Fund Facility for Bolivia, with access of SDR 1.369 billion, or 570 percent of quota, about US$1.9 billion.