Policymakers should broaden central clearing and monitor market-making, including by nonbank financial institutions, while ...

Europe’s Path to Growth and Resilience. Speech by Alfred Kammer Director of the European Department at the International ...

A Concluding Statement describes the preliminary findings of IMF staff at the end of an official staff visit (or ‘mission’), in most cases to a member country. Missions are undertaken as part of ...

The power-hungry technology requires policies to help expand electricity supplies, incentivize alternative sources, and help ...

This summary provides an overview of guidance provided to State Taxation Administration officials on ways to advance risk management for large taxpayers. Building from previous FAD guidance, this ...

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund completed the Fourth and final review of Kosovo’s Stand-By and Resilience and Sustainability Facility Arrangements. The completion of the review ...

Productivity growth—the key driver of living standards—fell sharply following the global financial crisis and has remained sluggish since, adding to a slowdown already in train before. Building on new ...

The Multiannual Financial Framework, or MFF, has proven its strategic importance time and again. It has supported economic convergence through cohesion policy, and, more recently, the ambitious ...

This paper provides a dataset on the currency composition of the international investment position for a group of 50 countries for the period 1990-2017. It improves available data based on estimates ...

The pandemic is not over, and the health and economic losses continue to grow. It is now evident that COVID-19 will be with us for the long term, and there are very different scenarios for how it ...

With the successful launch of the new data portal—the National Summary Data Page (NSDP) — the Central African Republic has implemented a key recommendation of the IMF’s Enhanced General Data ...

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