Joint Statement by the Saudi Finance Minister and IMF Managing Director on Supporting Recovery in the Middle East’s Conflict-Affected Economies ...

Now is a time of sweeping transformations in the global economy, in terms of technology, demography and geopolitics, creating a more challenging and uncertain environment for policymakers everywhere, ...

The AlUla Conference for Emerging Market Economies is an annual economic policy conference, held in AlUla, Saudi Arabia, ...

Europe faces a well-known productivity malaise, with a large and widening aggregate productivity gap relative to the U.S. In this paper, we provide a novel diagnosis of the firm-level roots of ...

An International Monetary Fund (IMF) staff team led by Stéphane Roudet visited Ghana during February 10-14 as part of their regular engagement with the Ghanian authorities and other stakeholders ...

Banking systems are largely insulated from inflation, but vulnerabilities at some banks could lead to tradeoffs between containing inflation and protecting financial stability ...

Download PDF More Formats on IMF eLibrary Order a Print Copy Create Citation We develop a spatial dynamic general equilibrium model of a small open agricultural economy to study the impact of global ...

The speech addresses the future of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), highlighting the region's economic growth, the importance of necessary reforms, and the need for continued diversification and ...

Digital money and digital payments innovations have the potential for improving cross-border payments by reducing costs, enhancing speed, and improving transparency. This note performs an empirical ...

Social welfare costs from bank resolution, including contagion and moral hazard, are often thought to be minimized when supervisors can direct the merger of a failing bank with a sound, healthy one.

Given the recent surge in inflation and the resulting sharp monetary tightening, this note asks whether bank profits are exposed to inflation. While most banks tend to match income and expense ...