What's New Archive
An Assessment of the 2019 and 2020 Pension Reforms in Mexico
March 8 , 2024
Working Paper No. 2024/053
Understanding Inflation Dynamics: The Role of Global Shocks in CEMAC
March 8 , 2024
Working Paper No. 2024/055
Predicting IMF-Supported Programs: A Machine Learning Approach
March 8 , 2024
Working Paper No. 2024/054
Specialization, Market Access and Real Income
March 8 , 2024
Working Paper No. 2024/051
Strengthening Income Stabilization through Social Protection in Emerging and Developing Economies: The Brazilian Experience
March 8 , 2024
Working Paper No. 2024/052
Debt Surges—Drivers, Consequences, and Policy Implications
March 8 , 2024
Working Paper No. 2024/050
Geoeconomic Fragmentation and International Diversification Benefits
March 8 , 2024
Working Paper No. 2024/048
Accounting for Climate Risks in Costing the Sustainable Development Goals
March 8 , 2024
Working Paper No. 2024/049
Monetary Policy with Uncertain Inflation Persistence
March 8 , 2024
Working Paper No. 2024/047
IMF Management Approves an Extension of the Staff Monitored-Program with Haiti and the Modification of the Performance Criteria
March 8 , 2024
Management of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved on December 21, 2023, an extension of the Staff-Monitored Program (SMP) with Haiti through September 30, 2024.
IMF Staff Completes Staff-Level Agreement on the First Review of the Extended Credit Facility Arrangement for Somalia
March 8 , 2024
An International Monetary Fund (IMF) team, led by Laura Jaramillo, conducted discussions with the Somali authorities in Nairobi during February 26 to March 7, 2024 and reached a staff-level agreement on the first review under the Extended Credit Facility (ECF) arrangement.
Suriname: Technical Assistance Report-Monetary and Financial Statistics Mission (May 8–19, 2023)
March 8 , 2024
Technical Assistance Report No. 2024/018
How to Tax Wealth
March 8 , 2024
How-To Note No 2024/001
South Africa: Technical Assistance Report-Report on Macro-relevant Climate Change Statistics Diagnostic Mission (July 17–21, 2023)
March 8 , 2024
Technical Assistance Report No. 2024/014
St. Lucia: 2023 Article IV Consultation-Press Release; and Staff Report
March 8 , 2024
Country Report No. 2024/068
Jamaica: 2024 Article IV Consultation and Second Reviews Under the Arrangement Under the Precautionary and Liquidity Line and Arrangement Under the Resilience and Sustainability Facility-Press Release; Staff Report; and Statement by the Executive Director for Jamaica
March 8 , 2024
Country Report No. 2024/069
IMF Staff Completes the mission regarding the Second Reviews of the Arrangements under the Extended Credit Facility and the Extended Fund Facility and Concludes the First Review of the Arrangement under the Resilience and Sustainability Facility for the Islamic Republic of Mauritania
March 8 , 2024
A mission from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), led by Mr. Felix Fischer, held discussions with the Mauritanian authorities in Nouakchott from February 26 to March 7, 2024, on the second reviews of the program supported by the Extended Credit Facility (ECF) and the Extended Fund Facility arrangements, as well as on the first review of the program under the Resilience and Sustainability Facility (RSF) arrangement.
IMF Executive Board Concludes 2023 Article IV Consultation with St. Lucia
March 7 , 2024
St. Lucia’s tourist-dependent economy has rebounded strongly after the Covid-19 pandemic and the commodity import price shock due to Russia’s war in Ukraine. Output is currently near the pre-pandemic level, while higher government revenue has narrowed the fiscal deficit. Similarly, with the recovery of tourism, the current account deficit declined from the pandemic peak of 16 percent of GDP in 2020 to an estimated 2 percent of GDP in 2022. Though declining, public debt remains much higher than before the pandemic. The banking sector has adequate liquidity and is profitable, but NPLs are elevated.
BOJ-IMF Conference: Gender Diversity in the Workplace as a Key to Economic Growth
Suriname and the IMF Reach Staff-Level Agreement on the Fifth Review of the Extended Arrangement Under the Extended Fund Facility
March 7 , 2024
The IMF staff team and the Surinamese authorities reached a staff-level agreement on the fifth review of the authorities’ home-grown economic recovery program supported by the Extended Fund Facility (EFF). The review is subject to approval by the IMF’s Executive Board.