Ukraine's relations with the IMF have been marked by numerous unsuccessful programs. However, the full-scale Russian invasion in 2022 prompted a pivotal shift. Against its usual practice of not ...

The IMF is a 191-nation lending organization that works to promote economic growth and financial stability and to reduce global poverty. Global inflation, which had surged after the COVID-19 ...

IMF’s willingness to remove its conditionality of privatising loss-making State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) to continue funding ...

Staff from an International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission are in Argentina discussing a possible new debt deal, an economy ...

An IMF programme could reassure investors in Georgia ... from subversive foreign influence and from being dragged into war with Russia like Ukraine. The European Union has frozen Georgia's ...

Israel's budget deficit reached 6.9% in 2024, its highest level since 11.6% in 2020 due to the Covid pandemic. All three agencies lowered Israel's credit rating in 2024. (Reporting by Steven Scheer; ...

Rising geopolitical tensions and the breakout of war have further intensified underlying fissures in the global economy.

And second, are Pakistan's interests served by these policies? In the tattered world economy of the post-war period, the IMF and its sister organisation, the World Bank, made good sense.