On January 13, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the Article IV consultation with The Bahamas.

This paper examines the evolution and challenges of Kosovo's pension system. Since its inception, a basic pension and mandatory individual accounts have formed the key element of Kosovo’s pension ...

Growth divergences persist and could widen, while policy shifts may reignite inflation pressures in some countries ...

The economic literature has long attributed non-zero expected excess returns in currency markets to time-varying risk premiums demanded by risk-averse investors. This paper, building on Bacchetta and ...

This paper analyzes the transmission of ECB policy rate changes to bank interest rates in Kosovo during the 2022-23 tightening cycle. While both lending and deposit rates increased, the passthrough ...

Kosovo has embarked on a journey of digital transformation, developing digital infrastructure to provide access to households, companies, and educational institutions and modernizing its public ...

The IMF Executive Board completed the second review of the arrangement under the Extended Credit Facility (ECF) for Ethiopia, allowing the authorities to draw the equivalent of about US$248 million ...

The World Economic Outlook (WEO) is a survey of prospects and policies by the IMF staff, usually published twice a year, with updates in between. It presents analyses and projections of the world ...

The country has emerged as a regional anchor of growth and stability thanks to impressive economic resilience and reform ...

Mr. Geoff Gottlieb, IMF Senior Regional Representative for Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe, made the following statement: ...

Persistently low growth, driven by a large productivity gap with the global frontier, has plagued the EU for decades. To this, we now add growing geo- economic fragmentation and a soaring energy price ...