Some higher risk countries still face high costs for selling foreign-currency denominated debt to investors after major ...

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the Article IV consultation with the Republic of Latvia and endorsed the staff appraisal on a lapse-of-time basis without a ...

The Latvian economy contracted with significant disinflation against the backdrop of geopolitical headwinds. Persistent services inflation, driven by strong nominal wage growth amid tight labor ...

With the successful launch of the new data portal, the National Summary Data Page (NSDP) today, Bahrain has implemented a key recommendation of the IMF’s Enhanced General Data Dissemination System (e- ...

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 ...

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

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the Post Financing Assessment (PFA) , and endorsed the Staff Appraisal on a lapse-of-time basis. South Africa’s capacity to repay ...

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

In the less than two decades since his master’s thesis, the 37-year-old Zucman has established himself as one of the world’s ...

As advanced economies turn increasingly inward, emerging markets have an important stake in the defense against global ...

During two visits in 2023-24, the IMF mission implemented a set of recommendations made by a previous technical assistance mission in May 2022 which were aimed at improving the solvency stress model ...