Artificial intelligence can boost productivity, create better jobs, and improve public services in sub-Saharan Africa, but ...
The IMF Executive Board completed the First Review of Ukraine’s 48-month Extended Fund Facility (EFF) arrangement, enabling an immediate disbursement of SDR 503 million (about US$690 million). Ukraine ...
Austria started to slowly recover in 2025 after two years of recession, but the energy shock due to the Middle East conflict is weighing on the outlook. A large and complex banking sector with ...
Do you have a few minutes to participate in a survey about the IMF’s work and communications in Asia? Your views will help us improve engagement ahead of the 2026 Annual Meetings in Thailand.
Economic growth will remain positive in 2026, but slow to 0.6 percent as higher energy prices weigh on consumption. Growth is expected to recover gradually thereafter, with a stronger rebound expected ...
The largest disruption to the global oil market in decades should have sent prices soaring. But after spiking at the start of the war in the Middle East, crude prices soon settled in a range of $90 to ...
The UK economy has remained resilient, but the war in the Middle East has dampened near-term growth prospects. Growth is projected to slow to 1.0 percent in 2026 before gradually recovering as the ...
The UAE economy has shown remarkable resilience to the conflict in the Middle East, supported by strong buffers, timely and well-targeted policy response including by the government and the CBUAE ...
An International Monetary Fund (IMF) team, led by Ms. Iva Petrova, held discussions on the third review under the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) and the second review under the Resilience and ...
The war in the Middle East has weakened the euro area outlook, with growth projected to slow from 1.4 percent in 2025 to 0.9 percent in 2026 and 1.2 percent in 2027 and headline inflation projected to ...
IMF staff and the Yemeni authorities have reached a staff-level agreement on the key economic policies and reforms that could underpin a Staff-Monitored Program. The proposed 18-month SMP aims to ...
An IMF staff team visited Dhaka following a request from the government for a new Fund-supported economic reform program. The ...
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