The mission estimates that making substantial progress in critical SDG sectors in Uganda would require additional annual spending of about 18.4 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) by 2030.

Sierra Leone faces important development challenges. This includes dealing with the impacts of climate change such as rising temperatures, more frequent extreme hot days, and increasingly erratic ...

During the 1980s, as many countries sought to adapt to a changing, sometimes turbulent economic climate, their policymakers underwent a dramatic change in thinking. How beneficial has this "silent ...

New accession candidates will need to undertake equally ambitious reforms to make the next expansion a comparable success ...

Somalia’s program performance has been strong, demonstrating the authorities’ steadfast commitment to macroeconomic stability and strengthening institutional capacity and frameworks.

Affordability and other complex housing issues challenging governments can be better revealed in broader economic analysis ...

Comprehensive, country-specific understanding of housing and mortgage markets can help calibrate monetary policy ...

Mr. Nigel Clarke, Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), issued the following statement today in Nairobi at the conclusion of his visit to Kenya over December 8–10, 2024: ...

Washington, DC: The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the Article IV consultation [1] with Haiti.

Haiti is facing exceptional challenges. While security has deteriorated steadily since the last 2019 Article IV Consultation, it reached crisis proportions in the first few months of 2024. Gangs ...

It is expected that the next Article IV consultation with Chad will be held on the standard 12-month cycle.

A newly developed dataset shows how the pandemic’s aftermath ushered in the worst housing affordability crisis in more than a ...