Tras concluir la Consulta del Artículo IV de 2025 con Costa Rica el 12 de mayo de 2025, el Directorio Ejecutivo del Fondo Monetario Internacional (FMI) se reunió el mismo día, en una sesión informal , ...

A technical assistance mission from the IMF’s Statistics Department visited South Africa during October 7-18, 2024, to support the authorities in improving compilation and dissemination of Government ...

Behind many sovereign debt crises there is often a simple, but difficult truth: the full picture of public debt and contingent liabilities which migrated to sovereign balance sheets was not visible to ...

After concluding the 2025 Article IV consultation with Costa Rica on May 12, 2025, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Executive Board met on the same day in an informal session to discuss a request ...

Managing Director Remarks' at the IMF Conference on Public Debt Transparency—Aligning the Law with Good Practices ...

The power-hungry technology requires policies to help expand electricity supplies, incentivize alternative sources, and help ...

Is foreign capital associated with economic growth and, if not, why does it flow "uphill"? Standard economic theory tells us that financial capital should, on net, flow from richer to poorer countries ...

China’s high national savings rate—one of the highest in the world—is at the heart of its external/internal imbalances. High savings finance elevated investment when held domestically, or lead to ...

Rising debt vulnerabilities in low- and middle-income countries have rekindled interest in a Brady Plan-style mechanism to facilitate debt restructurings. To inform this debate, this paper analyzes ...

Exchange Rate Query Tool - This query tool allows the user to retrieve exchange rates data from the IMF rates database, and view, print, or save the data.

There is a vast body of literature estimating the impact of financial development on economic growth, inequality, and economic stability. A typical empirical study approximates financial development ...

In this paper, we present the most comprehensive estimates of China’s government balance sheet to date. Based on these estimates, we show how major shifts in fiscal policy over the last two decades ...