The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has considered a report by the Managing Director on Turkmenistan’s observance of its obligations under Article VIII, Section 5 of the IMF’s ...
Emigration continues to shape the demographic and economic landscapes of Pacific Island Countries (PICs), though patterns and impacts vary widely across the region. This paper examines emigration ...
Favorable external environment supported a stronger external position and non-oil activity, improved market access, and declining inflation. At the same time, however, it slowed macroeconomic ...
Today, we are launching a new paper that focuses specifically on the Western Balkans and Moldova, accession countries which ...
Today, most major advanced economies have public debt paths that call for fiscal policy attention. All of us are aware that U.S., French, and Japanese 10‑year sovereign yields, to highlight just three ...
EU accession offers a unique opportunity to accelerate growth and raise living standards in the Western Balkans and Moldova. The paper suggests that GDP per capita could rise by about one-third within ...
IMF staff and the Salvadoran authorities have reached staff-level agreement on the combined second and third reviews of the 40-month arrangement under the Extended Fund Facility (EFF). Subject to ...
El personal técnico del FMI y las autoridades de El Salvador han llegado a un acuerdo a nivel técnico sobre la segunda y tercera revisiones combinadas del programa de 40 meses en el marco del Servicio ...
Will artificial intelligence (AI) help poorer countries catch up? This paper argues that the answer depends less on access to AI than on the capacity to use new knowledge productively. We show that ...
We propose a tractable small-open-economy model in which uncovered interest parity premia on foreign exchange (FX) markets arise from the endogenous lack of insurability of exchange rate risks.
On August 26, 2026, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the Article IV consultation with Republic of Estonia.
We study the determinants of US dollar demand across market participants and traded instruments using survey-based exchange rate and macroeconomic expectations. To empirically establish the relevance ...