Level Agreement on the latest Reviews under the Extended Fund and Extended Credit Facilities, and the Resilience and Sustainability Facility and on a New 42-Month ECF/EFF ...

The 2029 Annual Meetings of the World Bank Group and International Monetary Fund will take place in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, in October 2029, as decided in a vote by the Boards of Governors of ...

An International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission led by Ms. Stephanie Eble conducted discussions for the 2026 Article IV consultation with the Libyan authorities during March 30 – April 8, 2026, in Tunis.

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 ...

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

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 ...

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the 2026 Review of the Adequacy of the Fund’s Precautionary Balances ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...