Slovakia’s fiscal position has weakened considerably over the past 15 years, with public debt and expenditure rising faster than in peer countries. Given limited scope for additional revenue-based ...

Rising defense spending requires difficult fiscal choices to avoid raising vulnerabilities, while post-war recovery hinges on ...

This paper studies Morocco’s public infrastructure investment scale-up in 2024–2030, amounting to around 12 percent of 2024 GDP. Empirical evidence shows that improvements in infrastructure quantity ...

Widening global current account imbalances are best addressed by simultaneous domestic policy adjustments. Industrial policy ...

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the Article IV consultation with Japan.

A staff team from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) led by Mr. Camilo E. Tovar, conducted a virtual mission from March 23 to April 1st, 2026, to assess progress under Haiti’s program.

Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), announced today her intention to appoint Mr. Zeine Zeidane as Director of the African Department (AFR). Mr. Zeidane ...

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) completed the Article IV Consultation for the United States on April 1, 2026.

This paper analyses budget credibility in Sub-Saharan Africa, where fiscal plans frequently diverge from execution. Using a new dataset covering 39 countries during 2021–24, it documents persistent ...

IMF staff and the Rwandan authorities have reached staff-level agreement on a 38-month Extended Credit Facility (ECF) ...

The Quarterly Projection Model (QPM) is one of the IMF’s standard frameworks for monetary policy analysis and forms a core component of a forward‑looking Forecasting and Policy Analysis System (FPAS).

Global imbalances denote the distribution of countries’ current account balances, identically equal to the difference between two forward-looking aggregate variables: national savings and domestic ...