Washington, DC: In line with the standard procedures for members whose Article IV consultations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are delayed, on April 9, 2026 the Executive Board was briefed ...

IMF staff and the São Toméan authorities had productive discussions on the third review of the economic policies underpinned by the 52-month ECF-supported program. Most quantitative targets for the ...

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

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

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

At the request from the Central Bank of Cabo Verde, a Technical Assistance mission from the Monetary and Capital Markets Department visited Praia from March 19 to 28, 2025 to assist the authorities in ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

This paper studies how house prices shape internal migration across Spain’s provinces and the implications for the spatial allocation of labor. Using a gravity-style framework, we estimate the causal ...