Management of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved on December 20, 2024, a Staff-Monitored Program (SMP) with Haiti which runs through December 19, 2025. The new 12-month SMP was designed by ...

The IMF Executive Board today approved a 40-month ECF arrangement for São Tomé and Príncipe, in the amount of SDR 18.5 million (approximately US$24 million, or 125 percent of the country's quota), to ...

The IMF Board today completed the Sixth Review of the Extended Arrangement under the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) for Ukraine, enabling a disbursement of about US.1 billion (SDR 834.9 million) to ...

The IMF Executive Board completed today the first review under the ECF-arrangement for Togo, allowing the authorities to draw the equivalent of about US$57.4 million (SDR 44.0 million). The Executive ...

On December 4, 2024, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the 2024 Article IV consultation with the Philippines.

The increase in debt in the last decade points to the need for lowering deficits, rebuilding space to deal with shocks, and strengthening fiscal rules ...

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) completed today the second review under The Gambia’s Extended Credit Facility (ECF) arrangement, approved by the IMF Executive Board on ...

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) completed the Second Review under the 48-month Extended Credit Facility (ECF) arrangement that was approved on September 21, 2023. The ...

We study how one-time subsidies for adoption of modern technology drove Korea's industrialization in the 1970s. Leveraging unique historical data, we provide causal evidence consistent with ...

IMF staff and the El Salvadoran authorities have reached a staff-level agreement on a new arrangement under the IMF’s Extended Fund Facility (EFF) for about US.4 billion to support the government’s ...

Economic output and livelihoods in Pacific Island economies (PIEs) rely greatly on ocean-related sectors and products, known as the ”Blue Economy”. Yet, marine ecosystems are under mounting pressure ...