Norway’s economy has shown resilience amid global uncertainty, supported by strong fiscal buffers, a credible policy framework, and a robust net external asset position. These fundamental strengths ...

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) completed the Article IV Consultation for Norway[1] and endorsed the staff appraisal without a meeting on a lapse-of-time basis[2] The auth ...

A staff team from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), led by Mr. Edward Gemayel, visited Senegal from August 19-26, 2025, to discuss corrective measures following the Court of Auditors' report ...

The IMF completed today the mid-term review of Chile’s qualification under the Flexible Credit Line (FCL) arrangement. The arrangement was approved on August 27, 2024, for an amount of about US$13.8 ...

Following the double shock of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha‘apai volcanic eruption and tsunami, the Tongan economy has recovered steadily and continues to strengthen driven by ...

Migration has been typically accompanied by persistently large gender gaps in labor force participation (LFP) rates within the Latin American and the Caribbean (LAC) countries from 1990 to 2020.

The key function of banks in the real world is endogenously creating (inside) money. But they do so facing solvency, liquidity and maturity risks and being subject to regulatory and demand constraints ...

An IMF Statistics Department mission visited Hanoi from March 3-7, 2025, to provide training and technical assistance to Vietnamese authorities on improving government finance and public sector debt ...

Capital flows to emerging market and developing economies went through several boom-bust cycles in recent decades, often partly driven by external developments such as monetary policy decisions in ...

Pacific's medium-term growth prospects using two approaches. First, growth accounting analysis and machine-learning estimation reveal how demographics, capital deepening, productivity, and human ...

A capacity development mission was held in Nouakchott, Mauritania, from May 4 to 16, 2025, to support tax and customs compliance and governance in the Free Zone of Nouadhibou (FZN) following the July ...

This paper proposes a “quasi-agnostic” sign restriction procedure to identify structural shocks in frequentist structural vector autoregression (SVAR) models. It argues that low acceptance rates, ...