THE 2024 IMF/World Bank Annual Meetings were held in Washinton, DC, last October. This year, we got four major general conclusions out of the discussions.

An International Monetary Fund (IMF) team led by Martin Schindler, Mission Chief for Burkina Faso, held meetings in Ouagadougou during September 30–October 9 and in Washington during the 2024 ...

India's economic growth has been impressive, with an average 7.5% growth rate in recent years. As the country approaches a ...

The Government of Madagascar in collaboration with International Financial Institutions (IFIs) and development partners announced today at COP29 in Baku an integrated set of innovative initiatives to ...

Cross border challenges are widening the gap between the output of Europeans and Americans, who have been moving ahead since ...

Pakistan had initially planned to raise USD 3.2 billion, including the USD 1.2 billion Saudi oil facility. However, each month of delay in finalising this facility reduces available funds by USD 100 ...

The view that African firms and governments pay a higher cost of capital than is necessary to compensate investors in debt ...

The interim government is going to curtail its expenditure focusing on the budget for 2024-25 in order to keep fiscal ...

The global lender’s new projections come as Beijing steps up efforts to shore up an uneven recovery in the world’s second-biggest ... consumers and businesses. The IMF said it had revised ...

The Government of Madagascar in collaboration with International Financial Institutions (IFIs) and development partners announced ...

We’re undoubtedly going through another round of stringent prescriptions and conditionalities. These World Bank/IMF policies, which had come under different ‘beautiful’ names in the past, such as the ...

In the past four years, the share of people living below the poverty line in Sri Lanka has risen to 25.9 per cent. The World ...