La economía está recuperándose de los efectos del cierre de la mina Cobre Panamá. Se proyecta que el crecimiento del PIB aumente al 4,5% en 2025 a medida que se disipan las repercusiones del cierre de ...

Following the double shock of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha‘apai volcanic eruption and tsunami, the Tongan economy has recovered steadily and continues to strengthen driven by ...

An IMF Statistics Department mission visited Hanoi from March 3-7, 2025, to provide training and technical assistance to Vietnamese authorities on improving government finance and public sector debt ...

Migration has been typically accompanied by persistently large gender gaps in labor force participation (LFP) rates within the Latin American and the Caribbean (LAC) countries from 1990 to 2020.

The key function of banks in the real world is endogenously creating (inside) money. But they do so facing solvency, liquidity and maturity risks and being subject to regulatory and demand constraints ...

Pacific's medium-term growth prospects using two approaches. First, growth accounting analysis and machine-learning estimation reveal how demographics, capital deepening, productivity, and human ...

This paper assesses the stance of monetary policy in eleven Sub-Saharan African (SSA) emerging and frontier market economies. We estimate neutral real interest rates using a range of methodologies, ...

This paper proposes a “quasi-agnostic” sign restriction procedure to identify structural shocks in frequentist structural vector autoregression (SVAR) models. It argues that low acceptance rates, ...

This paper documents five empirical facts about the role of strategic complementarities in firms’ price-setting behavior, using administrative data from Chilean firms. (1) Strategic complementarities ...

The Canadian economy has navigated the pandemic well and achieved a soft landing but rising trade tensions pose significant challenges. Amid sharp monetary tightening to control high levels of ...

This paper examines financial interconnectedness in Asia, particularly through Singapore, and the link between trade and financial flows. It finds that Asia's financial integration lags behind its ...

Safeguards Assessments, which apply to all member countries with arrangements for use of IMF resources approved after June 30, 2000, aim to provide reasonable assurance to the IMF that a central ...