THE 2024 IMF/World Bank Annual Meetings were held in Washinton, DC, last October. This year, we got four major general conclusions out of the discussions.

An International Monetary Fund (IMF) team led by Martin Schindler, Mission Chief for Burkina Faso, held meetings in Ouagadougou during September 30–October 9 and in Washington during the 2024 ...

The share of loans from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) more than doubled hitting a record of 43.3 ...

India's economic growth has been impressive, with an average 7.5% growth rate in recent years. As the country approaches a ...

Cross border challenges are widening the gap between the output of Europeans and Americans, who have been moving ahead since ...

The view that African firms and governments pay a higher cost of capital than is necessary to compensate investors in debt ...

Pakistan had initially planned to raise USD 3.2 billion, including the USD 1.2 billion Saudi oil facility. However, each month of delay in finalising this facility reduces available funds by USD 100 ...

The global lender’s new projections come as Beijing steps up efforts to shore up an uneven recovery in the world’s second-biggest ... consumers and businesses. The IMF said it had revised ...

In the past four years, the share of people living below the poverty line in Sri Lanka has risen to 25.9 per cent. The World ...

We’re undoubtedly going through another round of stringent prescriptions and conditionalities. These World Bank/IMF policies, which had come under different ‘beautiful’ names in the past, such as the ...

The Nigerian naira has collapsed, and analysts warning that the worst could happen for the venerable currency. The USD to NGN ...

Authorities have ruled out the need for additional taxes or a mini-budget, citing the IMF’s positive response. Officials said ...