Staff Discussion Notes showcase the latest policy-related analysis and research being developed by individual IMF staff and are published to elicit comment and to further debate. These papers are ...
IMF staff and the Sri Lankan authorities held productive discussions relating to the Seventh Review of the IMF’s Extended Fund Facility (EFF), and the 2026 Article IV Consultation. Discussions will ...
Remarks by Kristalina Georgieva, IMF Managing Director At the Informal Meeting of Economic and Financial Affairs Ministers in Dublin, Ireland ...
On September 9, 2026, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) reviewed the joint IMF-World Bank Debt Sustainability Framework for Low-Income Countries (LIC-DSF).
A swift policy response, strong macroeconomic buffers, and a flexible exchange rate helped Egypt absorb spillovers from the war in the Middle East, but more decisive reform implementation is needed to ...
Manila – September 25, 2026: An International Monetary Fund team, led by Mr. Andrea Pescatori, held meetings in Manila from September 15 to 25, 2026, for the 2026 Article IV Consultation. At the ...
On September 18, 2026, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) completed the Article IV Consultation for Brunei Darussalam. The authorities have consented to the publication of ...
In 1987, Robert Solow famously remarked that the computer age was visible everywhere except in the productivity statistics (Solow 1987). Nearly four decades later, the rapid diffusion of generative ...
This report presents the findings of the Public Investment Management Assessment (PIMA) and the Climate PIMA (C-PIMA) conducted for Portugal at the request of the Ministry of Finance. Despite a ...
The right choice between subsidies, vouchers, or in-kind distribution can help countries save precious resources ...
We examine how sectoral complementarity and geopolitical alignment jointly shape greenfield foreign direct investment (FDI) to Latin America. Using a novel project-level database of greenfield ...
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