Shipping and flight disruptions highlight new fault lines in the global economy and their costs for growth and livelihoods ...

An International Monetary Fund (IMF) staff team, led by Mr. Sergei Antoshin, visited Kingstown and held discussions with St. Vincent and the Grenadines’ authorities and other counterparts during April ...

Domestic Resource Mobilization (DRM is central to achieving sustainable financing for development, building fiscal buffers, and strengthening state capacity. Recent work by the IMF and the World Bank ...

The global economy currently presents a mixed picture. The good news is that inflation has descended from its mid-2022 peak, thanks largely to the concerted efforts of central banks. The IMF conducts ...

Artificial intelligence is entering a new phase in which systems can act autonomously on behalf of users. These “agentic” AI systems can interpret objectives, break them into tasks, and interact with ...

The global economy faces renewed tests as the war in the Middle East threatens to disrupt growth and disinflation.

EDGE certified, the IMF promotes gender equality, encourages applications from candidates from all our member countries, and seeks out applicants with varied backgrounds, viewpoints, skills, and ...

The world faces the spillovers from the war in the Middle East. In addition to the human toll, its economic effects are global and uneven, once again hitting the poorest and most vulnerable countries ...

This paper applies the IMF’s Integrated Policy Framework (IPF) to the Czech Republic with the aim of contributing to the use of scenario analysis at the Czech National Bank (CNB). The paper identifies ...

The External Sector Report (ESR) analyzes global external developments and provides updated staff assessments of economies’ external positions, including current account balances, real exchange rates, ...

The Global Housing Watch tracks developments in housing markets across the world on a quarterly basis. It provides current data on house prices as well as metrics used to assess valuation in housing ...

Pour faire face au choc, les décideurs doivent veiller à ce que les mesures prises dans l’immédiat soient limitées dans le ...