The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the 2026 Post-Financing assessment (PFA) with the Republic of Congo.

Mauritius has adhered to the IMF’s Special Data Dissemination Standard (SDDS) Plus, the highest tier of the IMF’s Data Standards Initiatives. It is the first country in Africa and the 32nd country ...

Comprehensive regulatory reforms, including a simplified and coherent national licensing and permitting policy, can help ...

The IMF hosted a closed-door, High-Level Pacific Islands Dialogue in Nadi, Fiji on March 12-13, 2026. The meeting was attended by high-level representatives from 14 Pacific Island countries, along ...

Djibouti’s low and declining tax-to-GDP ratio underscores the need for well-designed tax policy reforms. Against this backdrop, the authorities requested capacity development support from the IMF’s ...

This technical assistance report responds to Cambodia’s Ministry of Economy and Finance request to support the development of a comprehensive framework for assessing tax expenditures. The report finds ...

Building foreign exchange reserves requires sound policies and takes time, but global efforts to lower the cost of holding ...

Europe’s objective is clear: a system that provides affordable, low-carbon energy while ensuring resilience and security of supply. The encouraging news is that these objectives reinforce one another.

This paper presents a nowcasting model for global trade that allows for regional dynamics and spillovers. World trade growth is driven by common global factors but also regional trends. While existing ...

This paper studies the macroeconomic consequences of undermining central bank independence through politically motivated ...

Powering Economic Development - Keynote Speech by IMF Deputy Managing Director Nigel Clarke at the Inter-America Development Bank Annual Meetings in Paraguay ...

This paper presents a global empirical analysis of how industrial policies (IPs) affect patent applications, with an instrumental-variable strategy that addresses selection in policy targeting by ...