This note presents the key updates and revenue development highlights of the 2026 version of the IMF's World Revenue ...

Economic activity has remained resilient, supported by public consumption and infrastructure investment, but fiscal and ...

First challenge: productivity and competitiveness. Across the globe, AI is creating great opportunity. In Asia, we estimate AI could boost annual GDP growth by up to 0.8 percentage points, depending ...

Thailand’s Ministry of Finance, the Bank of Thailand, and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) today took stock of preparations for the 2026 Annual Meetings of the IMF and the World Bank Group, which ...

This paper assesses the financial outlook of the pension system in Comoros based on recent actuarial analyses and examines reform options. It documents structural imbalances arising from system design ...

For years, policymakers have treated government debt like an elastic band that could be stretched without ever snapping. They stretched during the global financial crisis and again during the COVID-19 ...

Many highly indebted advanced economies face a grim fiscal outlook. Under current policies, the public debt ratios of ...

After the global financial crisis, the monetary-fiscal policy mix was the key to preventing a more severe and persistent ...

Finance ministries must think about digital public infrastructure as they do roads and power grids A government wouldn’t ...

The International Monetary Fund today issued the following statement: We are closely monitoring developments in the Middle East. So far, we have observed disruptions to trade and economic activity, ...

Eichengreen argues that it is the absence of an alternative currency that has sustained dollar dominance so far ...

Jigme Singye Wangchuck introduced his philosophy of gross national happiness, a more holistic measure of well-being than ...