To weather the shock, policymakers should ensure that any near-term measures are time-bound and targeted at the most ...

Countries face vastly different exposure to higher oil prices and supply uncertainty, shaped by whether they import or export, and how much policy space they have to respond ...

The IMF Executive Board completed the fifth review under Ecuador’s 48-month Extended Fund Facility (EFF) arrangement, ...

This Note documents Greece’s comprehensive tax administration reform journey over 2010–2025, showing how sustained reform under crisis conditions translated institutional change and digital innovation ...

IMFBlog is a forum for the views of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) staff and officials on pressing economic and policy ...

In this speech launching the IMF’s April 2026 Regional Economic Outlook for the Middle East and Central Asia, Jihad Azour, ...

This Selected Issues Paper analyzes productivity and long-run growth in Liechtenstein. Despite among the highest labor productivity levels in Europe, growth has been weak over an extended period, ...

The region must respond to energy shocks through disciplined policies that protect the vulnerable and strengthen resilience ...

Liechtenstein faces long-term fiscal pressures from population aging, climate transition, and enhanced security requirements. Using a Marginal Abatement Cost Curve framework, cohort-component ...

Now, the war in the Middle East is having important ramifications across the Western Hemisphere. Countries are being affected ...

The region can best cope by protecting vulnerable people, letting prices adjust, anchoring inflation expectations, and ...

Trade policy uncertainty (TPU) has reached record highs in recent years. This paper builds granular TPU measures for several ASEAN economies that distinguish between protectionist and trade ...