The war in the Middle East is expected to weigh on growth, slowing it to 2.6 percent in 2026, and to raise inflation to an average of 5.4 percent.
Heightened global uncertainty, geoeconomic fragmentation, and trade tensions have made deepening economic ties more important ...
Economic growth and the external position strengthened in 2025, supported by export‑led production in mining and agriculture.
COMING SOON Launch of the July 2026 World Economic Outlook Update. The World Economic Outlook (WEO) is a survey of prospects and policies by the IMF staff, usually published twice ...
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 ...
The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) today selected Kristalina Georgieva to serve as IMF Managing Director and Chair of the Executive Board for a second five-year term starting ...
IMF staff and the Egyptian authorities have reached staff level agreement on the policies that could support completion of the seventh review under the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) and the second ...
Tokenization is an area of growing interest in financial services. At its core, it involves issuing assets, recording ownership, and transacting on a blockchain. While simple in concept, its ...
The elevated regional tensions are casting a shadow on Israel’s economy. Growth forecasts for 2026 have been revised down to 3.5 percent from 4.8 percent before the war in the Middle East, while ...
This paper examines how tokenization and distributed ledger technology may transform Financial Market Infrastructures (FMIs) by enabling smart contracts to perform a growing share of functions ...
Major policy shifts this year have been adding to unknowns about the future and policy decisions, according to our World Uncertainty Index, which has doubled since January. Uncertainty has surged to ...
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