IMF staff and the Seychellois authorities reached a staff-level agreement on the policies needed to complete the two final reviews under the 36-month Extended Fund Facility and Resilience and ...

The Solomon Islands economy is estimated to have grown by 3.5 percent in 2025, driven by agriculture and gold production. The conflict in the Middle East, if prolonged, would weigh on economic ...

Why is the IMF concerned about money laundering and terrorism financing? The IMF is concerned about the consequences of money laundering, terrorism financing, and proliferation financing (providing ...

Against the backdrop of improved macroeconomic stability and Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR)’s ambition to achieve upper-middle-income (UMI) status by 2035, this paper examines the impact ...

Comprehensive regulatory reforms, including a simplified and coherent national licensing and permitting policy, can help ...

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the 2026 Post-Financing assessment (PFA) with the Republic of Congo.

Mauritius has adhered to the IMF’s Special Data Dissemination Standard (SDDS) Plus, the highest tier of the IMF’s Data Standards Initiatives. It is the first country in Africa and the 32nd country ...

What are IMF quotas? Quotas are the building blocks of the IMF’s financial and governance structure. An individual member country’s quota broadly reflects its relative position in the world economy.

This paper employs a Growth-at-Risk (GaR) framework to assess the impact of macro-financial variables on the growth rate distribution of Malta over a one-to-two-year horizon. The analysis suggests ...

This technical assistance report responds to Cambodia’s Ministry of Economy and Finance request to support the development of a comprehensive framework for assessing tax expenditures. The report finds ...

Europe’s objective is clear: a system that provides affordable, low-carbon energy while ensuring resilience and security of supply. The encouraging news is that these objectives reinforce one another.

This paper examines how Malta’s justice system impacts the efficiency of debt enforcement and insolvency proceedings, with implications for credit allocation and business and investment environment.