Mohammed AlJadaan, Finance Minister of Saudi Arabia; Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF); and Ajay Banga, President of the World Bank Group (WBG) issued th ...

Good morning, everyone. Welcome to this IMF press briefing. I am Julie Kozack, Director of the Communications Department. Thank you so very much for joining us this morning and, as usual, we are going ...

The world economy is at a pivotal juncture. At the center are shifting policy priorities by major economies and escalating trade tensions, in the face of high public debt, weak medium-term growth ...

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

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

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

The economy has continued to perform strongly. Real GDP growth was robust at 6.5 percent in 2024, supported by strong domestic demand. The external current account deficit narrowed by 2.6 percentage ...

IMF staff and the Armenian authorities have reached a staff-level agreement on the fifth review under the 3-year Stand-By Arrangement (SBA), which the Armenian authorities treat as precautionary. The ...

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 ...

The Global Sovereign Debt Roundtable (GSDR) met today and reviewed progress on the work to improve debt restructuring processes and timelines, and to help address debt vulnerabilities.

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 ...