An International Monetary Fund (IMF) staff team, led by Mr. Varapat Chensavasdijai, visited San José during February 25–March 9, 2026 for the 2026 Article IV consultation. At the conclusion of the ...

Our research shows that a comprehensive package of EU-level and national reforms—reducing intra-EU barriers toward U.S. levels and creating a truly integrated Single Market—could raise productivity by ...

This Report on the Observance of Standards and Codes—Data Module (Data ROSC) assesses the quality of Cambodia’s key macroeconomic statistics programs. The assessment is based on the 2025 pilot version ...

National statistical systems generate the statistics that underpin policy, economic analysis, and public trust. Yet, despite decades of investment in statistical capacity, two persistent challenges, ...

This report presents the results of a repeat Tax Administration Diagnostic Assessment Tool (TADAT) assessment conducted in Bangladesh during October 2025. The assessment evaluated the National Board ...

The EU has ambitious goals for climate and energy security. Its targets and policies may have large macroeconomic ...

Keynote Speech by IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva at Japan's Ministry of Finance's "Future of the Global Economy amid a Fluid International Economic and Monetary Order" Symposium ...

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 ...

But geopolitical fragmentation today augurs a world where rising risks of supply disturbances threaten stagflation pressures ...

Building foreign exchange reserves requires sound policies and takes time, but global efforts to lower the cost of holding ...

We build the first global quarterly narrative database of discretionary government spending actions by applying a fixed GPT–4 ...

This paper studies the macroeconomic consequences of undermining central bank independence through politically motivated ...