A gauge of uncertainty co-developed by IMF staff illustrates this. While market measures of volatility and business surveys ...

IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva calls for a single, authoritative voice to lead the implementation of the Draghi ...

Over 120 countries now have self-imposed fiscal straitjackets, up 7% since Covid. Britain, whose finance minister Rachel ...

China’s reported current account surplus understates China’s contribution to global trade imbalances. The massive gap between China’s export and import volume growth over the last six years tells a ...

The IMF is right to warn that some countries will need to rethink aspects of their welfare systems to stabilise their debt.

Alfred Kammer, Director of the IMF European Department, delivers a speech at the ECB’s House of the Euro in Brussels on ...

After two years of uneven recovery, 2025 has been a mist of slow growth, high household debt and psychological fatigue.

Just as Korea’s development was unprecedented, the challenges it now faces are also of an unparalleled scale. However, Korea ...

The IMF, in its bailout, cited Sri Lankan Airlines, Ceylon Petroleum Corporation and Ceylon Electricity Board as loss-making State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), which were causing a heavy burden on state ...

Vows to implement controversial 13 Amendment SJB leader Sajith Premadasa has asserted that the National People’s Power ...

The IMF paper “The Labor Market Implications of Healthy Aging” finds that as people live longer in better physical and ...