An International Monetary Fund (IMF) team, led by Daniel Leigh, conducted discussions for the 2025 Article IV Consultation with the Brazilian authorities and consulted with other stakeholders during ...

Macro-Fiscal and Fiscal Councils Network in Latin America and the Caribbean Santiago, Chile, June 3-4, 2025 ...

Not many places match the European Union for quality of life. Its workers enjoy more time off than in many other regions, yet their living standards are among the highest. Its core values of ...

Increased trade integration helped fuel a spectacular rise in global living standards. Lower trade costs increased global GDP ...

Economists have long helped shape policy by offering analysis to guide decisions on trade, taxation, regulation, and economic ...

The EU has sought to diversify access to critical minerals through trade agreements. But these remain vulnerable to a ...

When controlled by a select few, tech innovation can be self-serving and undermine the institutions that make it possible, ...

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved today a two-year arrangement for Costa Rica under the Flexible Credit Line (FCL) in an amount equivalent to SDR 1.1082 billion ...

Three years since the outbreak of the pandemic, fiscal policy has moved a long way toward normalization. Governments have withdrawn exceptional fiscal support, and public debt and deficits are falling ...

Many countries struggle with low economic growth and high debt and will need bold fiscal actions to restore their finances. Two significant areas for potential savings are energy subsidies and pension ...

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) completed the Article IV Consultation for Cyprus and endorsed the staff appraisal without a meeting ...

A second strategy for raising a country’s competitiveness is to reduce the price of its exports, which raises export sales volume. In countries with widespread collective bargaining, this can be done ...