The Managing Director's Global Policy Agenda, Spring Meetings 2025: Medium-Term Direction for the IMF: Anchoring Stability and Promoting Balanced Growth

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• Series: Policy Papers
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9798229006224.007

Overview

• The IMF was created 80 years ago to promote macroeconomic and financial stability, facilitate a balanced expansion of international trade, and ensure a smooth functioning of the world economy.
• Even as the world has evolved profoundly, the institution’s mission is as relevant today as it was then.
• At a time of great flux in the world economy, when policymakers are focused on the immediate fallout from the trade issues, the Global Policy Agenda sets a high-level roadmap for the IMF’s medium-term direction.

Roles and institutional priorities

• Serve as a trusted advisor to policymakers.
• Be a reliable lender of last resort during crises to resolve balance of payments problems.
• Champion strong policy frameworks.
• Convene to confront common economic challenges.
• Remain engaged with members to meet their needs over the medium and long term.

Policy focus areas and themes

• Balance of payments need
• Financial crises
• Financial safety nets
• Financial Sector Assessment Program
• Financial sector policy and analysis
• Financial sector stability
• Fiscal policy
• International monetary system
• Monetary policy
• Public debt
• Revenue mobilization
• Sustainable growth
• Trade tensions

Keywords (as provided)

• balanced growth
• capacity building
• debt
• debt vulnerability
• financial reforms
• Financial safety nets
• Financial sector stability
• fiscal policy
• Global
• imbalances
• IMF response
• IMF support
• lending
• lending toolkit
• macroeconomic and financial stability
• medium-term direction
• monetary and exchange rate policies
• policy advice
• surveillance
• trade tensions

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• Title: The Managing Director's Global Policy Agenda, Spring Meetings 2025: Medium-Term Direction for the IMF: Anchoring Stability and Promoting Balanced Growth
• Date: April 24, 2025
• Series: Policy Paper No. 2025/007
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9798229006224.007
• ISBN: 9798229006224
• ISSN: 2663-3493
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• Formats referenced: PDF and print copy ordering are available; citation formats include Chicago.

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