The result is that China’s trade balance now stands at between 2 percent and 4 percent of gross domestic product, depending on the methodology (see China Article IV for details of the differences in ...

Uganda's economic recovery is strengthening on the back of low inflation, favorable agricultural production, and strong activity in industrial and services sectors. The envisaged start of oil ...

IMF and Ukrainian Authorities Reach Staff Level Agreement on the Fifth Review of the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) Arrangement– Ukraine ...

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the Article IV consultation with the Kingdom of Lesotho.

End-of-Mission press releases include statements of IMF staff teams that convey preliminary findings after a visit to a country. The views expressed in this statement are those of the IMF staff and do ...

Growth now presents us with a dilemma. It is associated with many of our greatest triumphs, but also many of our greatest ...

AI is general-purpose technology that has applications across the entire economy, by sector and type of work. This is ...

There are two key measures of productivity growth, which are closely related. The first is labor productivity, or the simple ...

On September 10, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the Article IV consultation with the Dominican Republic and considered and endorsed the staff appraisal without ...

This paper explores the intersection of climate change policies with banking supervisory law. Statutory mandates define banking supervisory agencies’ objectives, functions and powers. Policies that ...

Overall, we find that headline shocks and their pass-through into core inflation account for most of the rise and fall of ...

Regaining these values and reversing the slowdown of innovation will be hard. Economists ought to design an economy high in ...