Building foreign exchange reserves requires sound policies and takes time, but global efforts to lower the cost of holding ...

Moldova’s financial sector is small, dominated by commercial banks. Since the last FSAP and banking crisis in 2014, the authorities notably improved bank oversight, financial safety net and crisis ...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) will close its Resident Representative Office in Paramaribo, Suriname, effective end April 2026.

An International Monetary Fund (IMF) staff team, led by Edward Gemayel, visited Zambia from February 26 to March 4, 2026, as part of the Fund’s regular engagement with the Zambian authorities and ...

First challenge: productivity and competitiveness. Across the globe, AI is creating great opportunity. In Asia, we estimate AI could boost annual GDP growth by up to 0.8 percentage points, depending ...

Thailand’s Ministry of Finance, the Bank of Thailand, and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) today took stock of preparations for the 2026 Annual Meetings of the IMF and the World Bank Group, which ...

This note presents the key updates and revenue development highlights of the 2026 version of the IMF's World Revenue ...

Economic activity has remained resilient, supported by public consumption and infrastructure investment, but fiscal and ...

Many highly indebted advanced economies face a grim fiscal outlook. Under current policies, the public debt ratios of ...

After the global financial crisis, the monetary-fiscal policy mix was the key to preventing a more severe and persistent ...

Finance ministries must think about digital public infrastructure as they do roads and power grids A government wouldn’t ...

Eichengreen argues that it is the absence of an alternative currency that has sustained dollar dominance so far ...