To weather the shock, policymakers should ensure that any near-term measures are time-bound and targeted at the most ...

Countries face vastly different exposure to higher oil prices and supply uncertainty, shaped by whether they import or export, and how much policy space they have to respond ...

The IMF Executive Board completed the fifth review under Ecuador’s 48-month Extended Fund Facility (EFF) arrangement, ...

This Note documents Greece’s comprehensive tax administration reform journey over 2010–2025, showing how sustained reform under crisis conditions translated institutional change and digital innovation ...

The region can best cope by protecting vulnerable people, letting prices adjust, anchoring inflation expectations, and ...

IMFBlog is a forum for the views of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) staff and officials on pressing economic and policy ...

The region must respond to energy shocks through disciplined policies that protect the vulnerable and strengthen resilience ...

This Selected Issues Paper analyzes productivity and long-run growth in Liechtenstein. Despite among the highest labor productivity levels in Europe, growth has been weak over an extended period, ...

Liechtenstein faces long-term fiscal pressures from population aging, climate transition, and enhanced security requirements. Using a Marginal Abatement Cost Curve framework, cohort-component ...

Now, the war in the Middle East is having important ramifications across the Western Hemisphere. Countries are being affected ...

Trade policy uncertainty (TPU) has reached record highs in recent years. This paper builds granular TPU measures for several ASEAN economies that distinguish between protectionist and trade ...

End-of-Mission press releases include statements of IMF staff teams that convey preliminary findings after a visit to a country. The views expressed in this statement are those of the IMF staff and do ...