The Asian financial crisis was a series of currency devaluations and other events that spread through many Asian markets beginning in the summer of 1997.

General Agreements to Borrow (GAB) was a lending medium offered through the International Monetary Fund by the Group of Ten countries.

The IMF Executive Board today concluded the 2025 Article IV Consultation and completed the fifth review under the Extended Credit Facility (ECF) arrangement and the second review under the Resilience ...

The IMF may be best known for lending to crisis-hit countries. But what about its own finances? How does it finance its critical functions and cover its operational expenses?

As we can see, the only nations that were able to resist IMF pressure were El Salvador, prior to gaining an IMF loan, and Bhutan which does not have an IMF loan. Each country with an IMF loan who has ...

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) completed the fifth review under the Stand-By Arrangement (SBA) with Armenia. The completion of the review enables access to an amount ...

The IMF Executive Board concluded El Salvador’s 2025 Article IV consultation and completed the first review of the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) arrangement, allowing for an immediate disbursement of ...

Recurring debt ceiling standoffs cause political disruptions and economic costs. We quantify one type of cost which is receiving growing attention: the spillover to short-term funding markets. Using ...

Empirical monetary policy shocks (EMPS) contain information about monetary policy both today and in the future. We define the term structure of monetary policy news as the marginal impact of an EMPS ...

Uzbekistan has made significant progress in its transition to a market economy since 2017, achieving advancements in macroeconomic stabilization, trade and exchange rate liberalization, price ...

The International Monetary Fund has approved an immediate disbursement of approximately $448.4 million (SDR 326.47 million) to Tanzania under the Extended Credit Facility and Resilience and ...

The International Monetary Fund on Thursday raised its 2025 GDP growth forecast for Saudi Arabia to 3.5% from 3%, partly on the back of demand for government-led projects, and supported by the ...