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 / 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 Advancer

The IMF and World Bank are set to launch a hybrid version of their Annual Meetings in Washington, DC next week (October 12-23). The Fund will launch the World Economic Outlook forecast for global...

Oct 07, 2021 - ANNUAL & SPRING MEETINGS-NEWS

IMF / Fiscal Monitor January 2021 Forecast

Government spending support of $14 trillion has contributed to saving lives and livelihoods and has mitigated the effects of the pandemic on consumption and output, the IMF said in its Fiscal...

Jan 28, 2021 - NEWS

IMF Fiscal Monitor Presser

The IMF is urging countries to act to counter downside risks threatening economic growth, the Fund’s Director of the Fiscal Affairs Department, Vitor Gaspar said at the launch of the Fiscal...

Apr 10, 2019 - ANNUAL & SPRING MEETINGS-NEWS