Food insecurity in WAEMU has worsened over the last few years—mainly due to conflicts, climate, and affordability issues—with the Sahel zone being in a particularly difficult situation. The security ...

When controlled by a select few, tech innovation can be self-serving and undermine the institutions that make it possible, ...

Increased trade integration helped fuel a spectacular rise in global living standards. Lower trade costs increased global GDP ...

Economists have long helped shape policy by offering analysis to guide decisions on trade, taxation, regulation, and economic ...

WAEMU members’ trade openness, integration into global value chains (GVCs), and export diversification remain limited. Tariffs, non-tariff measures (NTMs, obstacles to trade that arise mainly from ...

Macao, a special administrative region of China, is one of only a handful of places in the world where different commercial ...

The EU has sought to diversify access to critical minerals through trade agreements. But these remain vulnerable to a ...

Lithuania has proved resilient to multiple shocks in recent years. However, new challenges are emerging—including further increases in defense expenditure adding to the existing long-term spending ...

The Spanish economy has been performing strongly, supported by services exports and labor force growth. Growth is expected to remain significantly above the euro area average in the near term, before ...

With the successful launch of the new data portal—the National Summary Data Page (NSDP) — the Democratic Republic of Congo has implemented a key recommendation of the IMF’s Enhanced General Data ...

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 ...

Effective cash management is essential for enhancing fiscal discipline in Zambia, yet it faces significant challenges. With programmatic capacity development support from the IMF the authorities are ...