An International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission, led by Mr. James P. Walsh, visited Türkiye during May 29 – June 11, 2024, to conduct the 2024 Article IV consultations. After virtual follow-up ...

This paper, prepared by the Fund’s Office of Internal Audit’s (OIA) in July 2024, provides the results of its independent assessment of the implementation progress on the Institutional Safeguards ...

The mission helped the BCRD to assess a CBDC's potential macro-financial, legal, and financial integrity implications, and shared lessons from other countries' CBDC and digital money projects, ...

This Technical Assistance followed a request by the Debt Management Directorate of the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning (MINECOFIN) of Rwanda to develop the capacity in public debt ...

Over 100 central banks around the globe are exploring central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) to modernize payment systems. They aim to explore potential benefits, risks, and the broad range of new ...

The IMF approved today, a successor two-year arrangement for Chile under the Flexible Credit Line (FCL), for an amount of about US$13.8 billion (equivalent to 600 percent of quota). Chile qualifies ...

Daniel Susskind aims to persuade readers that economic policy should broaden its focus from aiming primarily to boost ...

IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva Proposes Appointment of Mr. Nigel Clarke as Deputy Managing Director ...

Financially constrained governments, particularly in emerging and developing economies, tend to face a fiscal trade-off between adapting to climate change impacts and pursuing broader development ...

The objectives underlying agricultural output subsidies can have conflicting implications for the design of subsidy programs. As they tend to affect meaningful swaths of the electorate, subsidies can ...

End-of-Mission press releases include statements of IMF staff teams that convey preliminary findings after a visit to a country. The views expressed in this statement are those of the IMF staff and do ...