An International Monetary Fund (IMF) team, led by Ms. Wenjie Chen, visited Bamako from April 21 to 26, 2024, following high-level discussions with the Malian authorities in Washington D.C. during the ...

The region has an opportunity to develop critical minerals markets and processing industries to maximize the coming boom.

A pension system is at the heart of social protection. By ensuring income security for older persons and other vulnerable groups, it prevents poverty, reduces inequality, and facilitates consumption ...

This summary provides an overview of the guidance provided to the Guinea-Bissau tax administration on the consolidation of its modernization agenda, underpinned by the tax administration´s digital ...

Opening Remarks by Krishna Srinivasan, Director of the Asia and Pacific Department at the press conference on the release of the IMF’s Regional Economic Outlook for Asia and Pacific, April 30, 2024, S ...

The outlook for Asia and the Pacific in 2024 has brightened: we now expect that the region’s economy will slow less than we previously projected as inflation pressures continue to dissipate. We have ...

Today, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) completed the second and final review of Pakistan’s economic reform program supported by the IMF’s Stand-By Arrangement (SBA).

Keynote Address by Kristalina Georgieva, IMF Managing Director, at the Annual EU Budget Conference 2024 “Looking Ahead: The EU Budget of the Future,” April 29, 2024, Brussels ...

The Central African Economic and Monetary Community (CEMAC) has been hit hard by two shocks, just a few years apart. The first shock in 2015–16 was triggered by a sharp decline in oil prices—CEMAC’s ...

The expansion of bilateral swap arrangements (BSAs) since the Global Financial Crisis has led to a substantial reconfiguration of the Global Financial Safety Net (GFSN). This paper examines the ...

Public debt-to-GDP ratios have undergone substantial fluctuations over both the short and long term. Most recently, global debt-to-GDP ratios peaked at 100% on average in 2020 due to COVID-19, ...

This paper investigates the effects of climate shocks on inflation and monetary policy in the Middle East and Central Asia (ME&CA) region. We first introduce a theoretical model to understand the ...