Country seeks to tackle tourism bottlenecks, improve access to credit, and expand its labor force ...

The economy remains resilient, with economic growth projected to exceed 5 percent both in 2025 and 2026, while inflation eased to 2.5 percent year-on-year in October 2025.

An IMF team visited Lusaka to discuss recent economic and financial developments as well as economic policies that could underpin the completion of the Sixth Review of the Extended Credit Facility ...

Alfred Kammer, Director of the IMF European Department, delivers a speech at the ECB’s House of the Euro in Brussels on ...

The Croatian economy has continued to grow rapidly, still among the highest in the euro area, and achieved notable progress in living standards, assisted in part by the robust absorption of the ...

Europe has managed major shocks, but growth is slowing, export gains are reversing due to tariffs, and bond markets reflect rising risks. Interest rate cuts and increased fiscal spending, including ...

With around 180 active tax expenditures and an estimated revenue foregone equivalent to about 6 percent of GDP in 2021, the third highest in Latin America, Uruguay offers a diverse array of tax breaks ...

Over the last decades, Uruguay has made significant progress in advancing structural reforms, positioning itself as a regional leader in governance, macroeconomic stability, and trade openness.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) released the results of the 2025 Financial Access Survey (FAS), accompanied by the ...

This paper investigates the macroeconomic implications of the rising wave of investment in information and communication technology (ICT)—including AI-related hardware and software—in the U.S. economy ...

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) completed today the third review of the EFF arrangement for Ecuador. Program performance remains strong. All ...

Thank you, President Lee Jae Myung, for the opportunity to share the IMF’s latest global economic outlook with APEC leaders, whose economies together represent about 61 percent of global GDP. As Korea ...