South Africa has many elements of sound fiscal transparency practices. Based on an assessment of fiscal transparency practices against the IMF’s Fiscal Transparency Code, South Africa’s practices are ...

The Montenegrin economy has rebounded strongly from the COVID-19 shock as private consumption grew, tourism recovered, and an influx of relatively affluent Russian and Ukrainian nationals due to ...

Global economic ties are changing in ways we have not seen since the end of the Cold War. After years of shocks—including the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine—countries are ...

A technical assistance (TA) mission on external sector statistics (ESS) was conducted to the Central Statistics Office (CSO) of Saint Lucia as part of the Caribbean Regional Technical Assistance ...

IMF Executive Board Approves US$71 Million in Emergency Financing Support and Concludes 2024 Article IV Consultation with Guinea ...

Washington, DC: An International Monetary Fund (IMF) staff team, led by Mr. Pau Rabanal, visited Montevideo and held discussions on the 2024 Article IV consultation with Uruguay’s authorities during ...

The outlook for Asia and the Pacific in 2024 has brightened: we now expect that the region’s economy will slow less than we previously projected as inflation pressures continue to dissipate. We have ...

The region has an opportunity to develop critical minerals markets and processing industries to maximize the coming boom.

We show how the standard social welfare framework can be used to assess the performance of social safety nets (SSNs) in terms of targeting efficiency and budget effort. We apply this framework to the ...

Keynote Address by Kristalina Georgieva, IMF Managing Director, at the Annual EU Budget Conference 2024 “Looking Ahead: The EU Budget of the Future,” April 29, 2024, Brussels ...

This summary provides an overview of the guidance provided to the Guinea-Bissau tax administration on the consolidation of its modernization agenda, underpinned by the tax administration´s digital ...