Welcome, everyone. It is wonderful to have you all here with us this morning for our Global Policy Agenda press briefing.

Mr. Seedy Keita, Chair of the African Caucus and Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs of The Gambia, and Ms. Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), ...

To safeguard trust in the financial system and support financial inclusion, consumer protection, integrity, and stability, this paper sets out 12 key considerations (KCs) to address cyber-enabled ...

The members of the International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC) have asked Mr. Mohammed Aljadaan, Saudi Arabia’s Minister for Finance, to extend his term as Chair of the Committee by one year ...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank Group (WBG) Managements today released the Bangkok Blueprint, a high-level framework developed in coordination with the Bank of Thailand that ...

Faced with heightened vulnerabilities, policymakers should contain leverage, strengthen debt sustainability, and harden cyber ...

Higher borrowing costs are adding to fiscal pressures at a time of high debt, making credible consolidation more urgent ...

IMF staff and the Zambian authorities have reached a staff-level agreement on a package of economic policies and reforms that could support a new 36-month arrangement under the Extended Credit ...

In less than seven years, the global economy has been subjected to an exceptional sequence of events. The pandemic and the ensuing disruptions to global supply chains; wars in Ukraine and the Middle ...

This paper proposes a new high-frequency structural vector autoregression model that can disentangle the drivers of oil and natural gas prices in real time. In particular, it separately identifies ...

IMF staff and the Nigerien authorities reached staff-level agreement on the final review of the economic program supported by the Extended Credit Facility (ECF), a new 38-month ECF-supported program, ...

COMING SOON. Launch of the October 2026 Regional Economic Outlook Update for Sub-Saharan Africa. The Regional Economic Outlook (REO) report provides comprehensive insights into re ...