This Handbook provides guidance to staff on the IMF’s facilities available to countries eligible to obtain concessional financing from the Fund under the PRGT, namely low-income countries (LICs). It ...

Amid heightened uncertainty, policymakers will need to deal with complex trade-offs between debt, slower growth, and new spending pressures ...

Amid trade tensions and high policy uncertainty, the path forward will be determined by how challenges are confronted and ...

In the latest Global Financial Stability Report, we assess that global financial stability risks have grown significantly, ...

Mr. Hervé Ndoba, Central African Republic’s Minister of Finance and Chair of the African Caucus and Ms. Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), issued the fol ...

On March 21, 2025, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the Article IV consultation with Azerbaijan and endorsed the staff appraisal, as well as the 2024 Financial Sy ...

Azerbaijan’s economy has recovered from two downturns prompted by the collapse of global oil prices in 2015 and COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Since the previous FSAP in 2015, the financial soundness of ...

The 70 low-income countries (LICs) in the IMF’s membership experienced steady but modest growth in 2024, with marked divergence across countries. While 11 of the 20 fastest-growing countries in 2024 ...

The World Economic Outlook (WEO) database is now available in SDMX format from our Entire Dataset page. For more information about SDMX, please visit SDMX.org For Bolivia, projections for 2027–30 have ...

The development and deployment of large language models like ChatGPT across the world requires expanding data centers that consume vast amounts of electricity. Using descriptive statistics and a multi ...

Global growth is expected to decline and downside risks to intensify as major policy shifts unfold After enduring a prolonged and unprecedented series of shocks, the global economy appeared to have ...

We welcome the steadfast commitment of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to its core mandate as the center of the Global Financial Safety Net (GFSN) and we look forward to the implementation of ...