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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

Strong reforms over the past 3 years have yielded improved macroeconomic outcomes and built resilience. Higher global fuel, food and fertilizer prices will improve exports and fiscal revenues, but ...

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.

IMF staff and the Senegalese authorities have reached a staff-level agreement on the key economic policies that could underpin a new Extended Credit Facility (ECF) arrangement to support the ...