Dialing down uncertainty, reducing vulnerabilities, and investing in innovation, can help deliver durable economic gains ...

Washington, DC. Mr. Hervé Ndoba, Central African Republic’s Minister of Finance and Chair of the African Caucus, and Ms. Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF ...

Policymakers should strengthen oversight of nonbank financial intermediaries, whose increasing interconnectedness with banks could exacerbate adverse shocks ...

On 14 October 2025, the Regional Financing Arrangements (RFAs) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) marked a significant milestone with the convening of their 10th Annual High-Level Dialogue.

Commodities play a central yet often underappreciated role in shaping macroeconomic fluctuations across both advanced economies (AEs) and emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs), with the ...

Policymakers should enhance market surveillance through systemic risk monitoring including stress testing and scenario ...

Stronger fiscal and monetary policy frameworks and more developed local currency debt markets have supported emerging market ...

Our analysis, in the context of Brazil’s latest yearly economic review (the Article IV consultation), shows that concerns ...

Spending more efficiently and reallocating public funds toward investment and innovation can be a powerful growth strategy ...

Recent immigrants have been successfully absorbed into the Lithuanian labor market and legislative amendments have enabled easier migration for high-skilled workers despite the reduction of non-EU ...

Lithuania faces immediate fiscal challenges from increased defense needs adding to the existing long-term spending pressures. Tackling these requires a multifaceted strategy, including revenue ...

Lithuania has seen strong income convergence since regaining independence, but in recent years progress in this respect has stalled as the contribution of capital deepening and TFP growth to labor ...