Capital markets integration, expanding opportunities for workers, and bigger consumer markets will allow companies to grow faster ...

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

Until recently, governments could postpone these choices by borrowing on convenient terms. But now, unprecedented debt levels ...

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 studies the macroeconomic consequences of undermining central bank independence through politically motivated ...

South Africa exhibits one of the highest levels of income inequality globally, reflecting persistent spatial exclusion. This ...

After the global financial crisis, the monetary-fiscal policy mix was the key to preventing a more severe and persistent ...

Keynote Speech by IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva at Japan's Ministry of Finance's "Future of the Global Economy amid a Fluid International Economic and Monetary Order" Symposium ...

We build the first global quarterly narrative database of discretionary government spending actions by applying a fixed GPT–4 ...

Building foreign exchange reserves requires sound policies and takes time, but global efforts to lower the cost of holding ...

The EU has ambitious goals for climate and energy security. Its targets and policies may have large macroeconomic ...

National statistical systems generate the statistics that underpin policy, economic analysis, and public trust. Yet, despite decades of investment in statistical capacity, two persistent challenges, ...