Second, stay the course on sound macroeconomic policies. In times of uncertainty, markets will scrutinize fundamentals.

In a speech at CEPS in Brussels, IMF European Department Director Alfred Kammer outlines how Europe can secure growth and ...

The book describes the difficulties of the current international corporate income tax system. It starts by describing its origins and how changes, such as the development of multinational enterprises ...

This paper considers the implications for developing countries of a new wave of technological change that substitutes pervasively for labor. It makes simple and plausible assumptions: the AI ...

This paper proposes a framework for measuring the informal economy that is consistent with internationally agreed concepts and methodology for measuring GDP. Based on the proposed framework, the ...

A Concluding Statement describes the preliminary findings of IMF staff at the end of an official staff visit (or ‘mission’), in most cases to a member country. Missions are undertaken as part of ...

The growing role of nonbanks in corporate credit intermediation raises important but underexplored questions about how both monetary policy (MP) and macroprudential policies (MaPP) affect lending and ...

Policymakers should broaden central clearing and monitor market-making, including by nonbank financial institutions, while dealers must continue to build resilience ...

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund completed the Fourth and final review of Kosovo’s Stand-By and Resilience and Sustainability Facility Arrangements. The completion of the review ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought the relationship between sovereigns and banks—the so-called sovereign-bank nexus—in emerging market economies to the fore as bank holdings of domestic sovereign debt ...

In August-September 2024, the IMF's Monetary and Capital Markets Department assisted the Central Bank of Comoros (BCC) in operationalizing a special resolution regime under the Law on the Recovery and ...

An International Monetary Fund (IMF) team, led by Ms. Suchanan Tambunlertchai, held meetings in Moroni from April 29 – May 13, to discuss progress on economic and financial policies and reforms in the ...