The IMF’s standard analysis of global imbalances puts equal emphasis on the United States (too little saving), Europe (too little investment), and East Asia (too much saving). That analysis is now ...

In many countries, austerity is a hard sell. Loans from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) can provide economic stabilization and financial support for developing countries—with conditions.

European governments face an unprecedented financing challenge as rising spending demands linked to ageing populations, the energy transition and defence threaten to place public finances under severe ...

International Monetary Fund (IMF) has projected that tokenization and blockchain technology will fundamentally transform global financial market infrastructure (FMI), but insisted that regulated ...

Sources: Turkish authorities; and IMF staff estimates and projections. 1/ Headline (or authorities’ definition), which includes items excluded from the IMF ‘program’ definition. [1] Under Article IV ...

Sources: Polish authorities; and IMF staff calculations. 1/ According to ESA2010. [1] Under Article IV of the IMF's Articles of Agreement, the IMF holds bilateral discussions with members, usually ...