IMF Spokesperson Julie Kozack discusses the IMF’s latest developments and answers questions on today’s global economy.

EU accession offers a unique opportunity to accelerate growth and raise living standards in the Western Balkans and Moldova. The paper suggests that GDP per capita could rise by about one-third within ...

Today, most major advanced economies have public debt paths that call for fiscal policy attention. All of us are aware that U.S., French, and Japanese 10‑year sovereign yields, to highlight just three ...

Exchange Rate Query Tool - This query tool allows the user to retrieve exchange rates data from the IMF rates database, and view, print, or save the data.

International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva delivered the following remarks at the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meeting in Asheville, North Carolina ...

Favorable external environment supported a stronger external position and non-oil activity, improved market access, and declining inflation. At the same time, however, it slowed macroeconomic ...

IMF staff and the Salvadoran authorities have reached staff-level agreement on the combined second and third reviews of the 40-month arrangement under the Extended Fund Facility (EFF). Subject to ...

As a private company, its independence from the government was not then contemplated. Though it would eventually come—some 300 years later—when, in May 1997, the British government gave the Bank ...

The Swiss economy has demonstrated resilience amid heightened global uncertainty and global energy price shock, benefiting from strong policy frameworks and economic flexibility.

Today, we are launching a new paper that focuses specifically on the Western Balkans and Moldova, accession countries which ...

We propose a tractable small-open-economy model in which uncovered interest parity premia on foreign exchange (FX) markets arise from the endogenous lack of insurability of exchange rate risks.

Now the forces behind Asia’s ascent are shifting. Trade is fragmenting, energy security is a concern, populations are aging, and productivity gains are harder to sustain. Some nations can still ...