Eswatini’s growth accelerated in 2025, supported by large ongoing investment projects, but is expected to moderate in 2026, reflecting the impact of higher fuel costs, weaker global demand, ...

This year’s report analyses sources and implications of a further widening of global current account balances in 2025, ...

This capacity development (CD) project financed by the Data for Decisions (D4D) Fund, was developed in response to a request from the Macro-Economic Statistics Division of Uganda Bureau of Statistics ...

Botswana’s VAT performance has been steady as a share of GDP, averaging about 3-4 percent of GDP annually. An IMF CD mission in 2025-26 applied the RA-GAP top-down VAT gap model to Botswana’s data for ...

Vaca Muerta is only one example of a broader opportunity. Mining investment is accelerating, knowledge-based services export ...

This technical assistance (TA) mission was conducted to support the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) in developing a first-time Residential Property Price Index (RPPI) for Kenya. The mission ...

This HLS summarizes IMF technical assistance provided to Angola on strengthening the management of VAT credits and refunds. The mission assessed the significant accumulation of excess VAT ...

If current trends continue, and the world’s major economies don’t change course, global imbalances could widen further. Even ...

Tight macroeconomic policies have helped slow domestic demand, but wage growth and inflation remain elevated, raising concerns about a de-anchoring of inflation expectations and erosion of export ...

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Since 2022, UK gilt yields, especially at long maturities, have risen above G7 peers, increasing borrowing costs and tightening financial conditions. This paper examines the drivers of the UK term ...

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