Improving the business environment, strengthening governance, and reforming the labor market are among the keys to economic ...

An International Monetary Fund (IMF) team led by Ms. Anastasia Guscina conducted discussions with the Surinamese authorities during February 5-14 on policies to complete the ninth and final review of ...

Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), announced today that Vitor Gaspar intends to retire as Director of the Fiscal Affairs Department in November 2025.

Every great leap in human progress—from the printing press to the steam engine to the semiconductor—has been driven by ideas.

The new “economics of talent” field aims to identify and nurture exceptional problem-solvers at an early stage ...

Education has been and can continue to be at the center of global poverty reduction. The world economy has experienced a ...

Just 22 percent of Americans said that college is worth the money, especially if it means taking out loans, according to a ...

If we look back to philosophers such as Adam Smith and Karl Marx, discussions of political economy were deeply intertwined ...

A history of the WTO’s predecessor sheds light on contemporary trade tensions. INDUSTRIAL POLICY, NATIONAL SECURITY, AND THE ...

Qatar has been actively preparing to embrace the transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI), allowing it to lead its Emerging Market peers in AI readiness. Qatar’s AI exposure has ...

Keynote Speech by Deputy Managing Director Nigel Clarke at a Symposium on the Future of International Cooperation on the 80th Anniversary of the End of World War II, Tokyo, Japan March 6, 2025 ...

This paper develops a Financial Conditions Index (FCI) for Qatar and uses the Growth-at-Risk (GaR) framework to examine the impact of financial conditions on Qatar’s non-hydrocarbon growth. The ...