Activity is decelerating. Despite an expansionary fiscal stance, growth is slowing to around 1½ percent this year, partly due ...

One of the best-known gauges is the Economic Policy Uncertainty Index, which tallies how many news stories in major publications cite uncertainty, the economy, and policy. Others track the difference ...

An International Monetary Fund (IMF) team, led by Mr. Édouard Martin, Mission Chief for Chad, visited N’Djamena to hold discussions on the 2024 Article IV consultation from October 3–15, 2024 ...

AI-driven trading could lead to faster and more efficient markets, but also higher trading volumes and greater volatility in times of stress.

Global public debt is very high. It is expected to exceed $100 trillion, or about 93 percent of global gross domestic product by the end of this year and will approach 100 percent of GDP by 2030. This ...

A booming mining sector, record high coal exports, and strong household and government spending have led to buoyant economic activity despite a large contraction in agriculture due to the severe ...

On September 27, 2024, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the Article IV consultation with Türkiye.

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 ...

Since 1980, income levels in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) have shown no convergence with those in the US, in stark contrast to emerging Asia and emerging Europe, which have seen rapid ...

Urgent action to cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is needed now. Early next year, all countries will set new emissions targets for 2035 while revising their 2030 targets. Global GHGs must be cut by ...

European countries have set ambitious goals to reduce their carbon emissions. These goals include a transition to electric vehicles (EVs)—a sector that China increasingly dominates globally—which ...