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IMF / Sub-Saharan Africa October 2021 Regional Economic Outlook
The IMF is predicting that the pandemic has permanently lowered the path of real GDP in sub-Saharan Africa, suggesting a loss of real per capita output of close to 5.6 percent in the latest issue...
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IMF / IMF Managing Director and IMFC’s Chair Press Briefing
The IMF’s Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva and Magdalena Andersson, the chair of the International Monetary and Financial Committee, the body that supervises the IMF’s work, held a press...
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IMFC Meeting
Members of the International Monetary and Finance Committee (IMFC) are meeting in Washington, DC Thursday (October 14). The meeting is held in the IMF headquarters during the Annual Meetings of...
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IMF / Fiscal Monitor October 2021 Press Briefing
Vitor Gaspar, Director of the IMF's Fiscal Affairs Department sounded the alarm on three issues: the great vaccine divide, the great finance divide, and climate change in the Fiscal Monitor...
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IMF / Managing Director on Global Policy Agenda
The IMF’s Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva announced today (Wednesday, October 13) in her virtual press briefing on the Global Policy Agenda that more uncertainty in supply chain disruptions...
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IMF / Fiscal Monitor October 2021 Forecast
The pandemic has led to an unprecedented increase in debt—issued by governments, nonfinancial corporations, and households the IMF estimated in the latest Fiscal Monitor report. In 2020 global...
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IMF Global Financial Stability Report
Easing monetary and financial conditions have fueled a steep rise in debt, with an increasing risk to market stability, the IMF’s Financial Counselor Tobias Adrian said Tueday (October 12) in...
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IMF WEO Global Growth Forecast
The IMF has downgraded its global growth forecast slightly to 5.9% for this year in its World Economic Outlook, warning that ongoing pandemic is widening divergence between countries with access...
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IMF / Global Financial Stability Report October 2021 Forecast
The IMF is warning in its latest Global Financial Stability Report that Covid-19’s lingering impact is fading optimism among investors, which could lead to financial tightening in the medium term,...
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IMF / World Economic Outlook October 2021 Forecast
The IMF is lowering its global growth projection for 2021 slightly to 5.9 percent while keeping it unchanged for 2022 at 4.9 percent. However, this modest headline revision masks large downgrades...
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IMF / Special Drawing Rights, Afghanistan, Ukraine
The IMF’s $650 billion Special Drawing Rights allocation is a historic decision that’s seen as ‘a shot in the arm for the global economy’ at a time of unprecedented crisis, Fund spokesman Gerry...
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IMF China / Haiti / SDRs / Lebanon
The IMF pushed China to ramp up reforms aimed at boosting domestic demand, Fund spokesman Gerry Rice told reporters Thursday in Washington, DC (January 4). “The second quarter GDP data from China...
