A Concluding Statement describes the preliminary findings of IMF staff at the end of an official staff visit (or ‘mission’), in most cases to a member country. Missions are undertaken as part of ...

Global growth is projected at 3.3 percent both in 2025 and 2026, broadly unchanged from the October 2024 World Economic Outlook (WEO) forecast with an upward revision in the United States offsetting ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...