Europe’s defense spending is undergoing a historic shift. With NATO members expected to reach 2% of GDP and discussions ...

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) today completed the ninth and tenth reviews under the Extended Credit Facility (ECF) arrangement for Guinea-Bissau.

The Spanish economy has continued to perform strongly, expanding significantly faster than euro area peers. Notwithstanding the adverse effect and heightened uncertainty from the conflict in the ...

In light of recent global shocks and rising external volatility, there is a growing need to effectively monitor short-term economic fluctuations, especially in countries with limited access to ...

This paper estimates debt overhang thresholds separately for 105 countries using a Kalman Filter approach applied to a standard growth model. The results reveal pronounced heterogeneity in the ...

Why is the IMF concerned about money laundering and terrorism financing? The IMF is concerned about the consequences of money laundering, terrorism financing, and proliferation financing (providing ...

This paper develops a methodology to assess the impact of a trade diversification strategy on aggregate import costs. Using granular bilateral import data for The Bahamas, we estimate that ...

IMF staff and the Seychellois authorities reached a staff-level agreement on the policies needed to complete the two final reviews under the 36-month Extended Fund Facility and Resilience and ...

The Solomon Islands economy is estimated to have grown by 3.5 percent in 2025, driven by agriculture and gold production. The conflict in the Middle East, if prolonged, would weigh on economic ...

Against the backdrop of improved macroeconomic stability and Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR)’s ambition to achieve upper-middle-income (UMI) status by 2035, this paper examines the impact ...

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

What are IMF quotas? Quotas are the building blocks of the IMF’s financial and governance structure. An individual member country’s quota broadly reflects its relative position in the world economy.