End-of-Mission press releases include statements of IMF staff teams that convey preliminary findings after a visit to a country. The views expressed in this statement are those of the IMF staff and do ...
COMING SOON Launch of the July 2026 World Economic Outlook Update. The World Economic Outlook (WEO) is a survey of prospects and policies by the IMF staff, usually published twice ...
Surges in public debt in many countries since the COVID-19 pandemic have rekindled interest in fiscal consolidations, which often entail difficult policy choices in the face of economic and political ...
IMF staff and the Egyptian authorities have reached staff level agreement on the policies that could support completion of the seventh review under the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) and the second ...
The elevated regional tensions are casting a shadow on Israel’s economy. Growth forecasts for 2026 have been revised down to 3.5 percent from 4.8 percent before the war in the Middle East, while ...
Tokenization is an area of growing interest in financial services. At its core, it involves issuing assets, recording ownership, and transacting on a blockchain. While simple in concept, its ...
Washington, DC: On June 17, 2026, the Executive Board on of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) completed the Article IV Consultation for Cyprus. [1] The authorities have consented to the ...
This paper examines how tokenization and distributed ledger technology may transform Financial Market Infrastructures (FMIs) by enabling smart contracts to perform a growing share of functions ...
Frontier Market (FM) status serves as a steppingstone for Low-Income Countries (LICs) aspiring to become Emerging Markets (EMs). Since the concept first emerged over three decades ago, FMs have gained ...
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In an uncertain global environment, priorities should be to entrench the remarkable gains achieved in recent years in strengthening economic and financial resilience, while accelerating convergence ...
End-of-Mission press releases include statements of IMF staff teams that convey preliminary findings after a visit to a country. The views expressed in this statement are those of the IMF staff and do ...