IMF Latam Economic Outlook Inflation Mexico

The IMF is predicting that countries in Latin America are returning to growth, but need to remain vigilant in the newly released Western Hemisphere Regional Economic Outlook released Thursday...

Oct 21, 2021 - ANNUAL & SPRING MEETINGS-FEATURES-NEWS

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...

Oct 21, 2021 - ANNUAL & SPRING MEETINGS-FEATURES-NEWS-PRESS BRIEFINGS

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...

Oct 14, 2021 - ANNUAL & SPRING MEETINGS-NEWS-PRESS BRIEFINGS

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...

Oct 13, 2021 - ANNUAL & SPRING MEETINGS-NEWS-PRESS BRIEFINGS

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...

Oct 13, 2021 - ANNUAL & SPRING MEETINGS-NEWS-PRESS BRIEFINGS

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...

Oct 13, 2021 - ANNUAL & SPRING MEETINGS-NEWS-PRESS BRIEFINGS

IMF / 2021 Annual Meetings MD Curtain Raiser Speech

The global growth will moderate slightly this year, IMF’s Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva announced in her Annual Meetings Curtain Raiser speech which was hosted virtually by Bocconi...

Oct 05, 2021 - ANNUAL & SPRING MEETINGS-NEWS

IMF WEO Global Growth Forecast

The International Monetary Fund forecasts a slow and uncertain recovery from the Covid-19 crisis in its latest update to the World Economic Outlook forecast, the Fund’s chief economist Gita...

Oct 13, 2020 - ANNUAL & SPRING MEETINGS-NEWS

IMF PLENARY

At the open of the 2019 Annual Meetings of the World Bank Group and International Monetary Fund, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva urged policymakers to resolve trade tensions, promote...

Oct 18, 2019 - ANNUAL & SPRING MEETINGS-NEWS

IMF: ASIAN ECONOMIC GROWTH SLOWDOWN

Asia faces a significant growth slowdown, with forecasts for 2019 and 2020 calling for the “slowest growth pace after the global financial crisis,” according to the International Monetary Fund....

Oct 18, 2019 - ANNUAL & SPRING MEETINGS-NEWS