Peru’s mining wealth holds the promise to substantially accelerate potential growth. However, many mining projects have been stalled for several years due to conflicts with local communities that feel ...

Opening Remarks by the IMF First Deputy Managing Director Gita Gopinath at the Conference on “Sri Lanka’s Road to Recovery: Debt and Governance” Shangri-La Hotel Colombo ...

Substantial savings from past oil production can help build a thriving economy for future generations—if spent better and ...

Greater debt transparency builds investor confidence, helps reduce borrowing costs, and strengthens debt sustainability—reducing the risk of shocks that can lead to a debt crisis ...

On June 10, 2025, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the Article IV consultation with Dominica and endorsed the staff appraisal without a meeting on a lapse-of-time ...

An International Monetary Fund (IMF) team led by Ms. Sarwat Jahan visited Kathmandu during May 26 to June 10, 2025. After constructive discussions, Ms. Jahan issued the following statement at the end ...

Cross-border payments are essential to the global financial system, facilitating trade and investment. The global cross-border traditional and crypto payment market approached a value of about one ...

A staff team from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), led by Ron van Rooden, visited Damascus from June 1–5, 2025, to assess the economic and financial conditions in the country, discuss the ...

El contexto de creciente incertidumbre en el que debe actuar la política fiscal hace necesario que los presupuestos públicos ...

The Central Bank of Oman (CBO) has a strong focus on transparency, building on the Omani Vision 2040. In line with the country’s long-term vision, Vision 2040 (see Box 1), the CBO is committed to ...

Focusing on a cross-border perspective, this paper identifies four key binding constraints that hinder firms’ ability to innovate and scale up within the EU single market—fragmented regulations, ...

During a major crisis, the transitional dynamics of conditional convergence are unlikely to apply. In this paper, we introduce a Markov chain approach which integrates the study of crises and ...