Lithuania faces immediate fiscal challenges from increased defense needs adding to the existing long-term spending pressures. Tackling these requires a multifaceted strategy, including revenue ...

Recent immigrants have been successfully absorbed into the Lithuanian labor market and legislative amendments have enabled easier migration for high-skilled workers despite the reduction of non-EU ...

Lithuania has seen strong income convergence since regaining independence, but in recent years progress in this respect has stalled as the contribution of capital deepening and TFP growth to labor ...

Our analysis, in the context of Brazil’s latest yearly economic review (the Article IV consultation), shows that concerns ...

Stronger fiscal and monetary policy frameworks and more developed local currency debt markets have supported emerging market ...

A staff team from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) led by Mr. Camilo E. Tovar, conducted a virtual mission from September 30 to October 8, 2025, to assess progress under Haiti’s Staff-Monitored ...

Spending more efficiently and reallocating public funds toward investment and innovation can be a powerful growth strategy ...

An International Monetary Fund (IMF) team, led by Ran Bi, conducted discussions with the Somali authorities, led by H.E Bihi Egeh during September 16 – October 8, 2025, and reached a staff-level ...

An International Monetary Fund (IMF) staff team, led by Mr. Ruben Atoyan, held meetings in Accra from September 29 to October 10, 2025, to discuss progress on the authorities’ policy and reform ...

The IMF welcomes the opportunity to resume Article IV consultations with Yemen after an 11-year hiatus. The conflict that began in 2014 halted a three-year Extended Credit Facility (ECF) arrangement, ...

IMF staff and the Sri Lankan authorities have reached staff-level agreement on economic policies to conclude the Fifth Review of Sri Lanka’s reform program supported by the IMF’s Extended Fund ...

The Mauritius authorities requested IMF technical assistance to reconcile the statistical treatment of Global Business Corporations (GBCs) in the national accounts and the balance of payments. An IMF ...