Persistent energy shocks, record public debt and the rapid rise of artificial intelligence defined the agenda at this year’s ...

According to the old parable, a frog placed in tepid water that is heating slowly lingers until it is too late and boils to death. Is the parable applicable to the future of independent central banks?

Analysis of the Fund shows shrinking role and unchanged adequacy With the euro area crisis in full swing in April 2012, dozens of governments collectively committed more than $430bn in new resources ...

It is becoming increasingly clear that nature loss is posing systemic risks to economic and financial stability globally.

Can Europe survive? The question is metaphysical. The continent will survive as a land mass, but will it prosper?

A great deal can happen in 10 years. Few areas illustrate this more clearly than the development of Africa’s financial markets, where sustained research, reform and regional competition have helped ...

Leverage is building in the non-bank financial sector where an apparently manageable market stress may easily turn into ...

Ahead of the International Monetary Fund-World Bank meetings in Bangkok, the People’s Bank of China published a welcome paper on its view on the renminbi exchange rate. It makes valid points about the ...

Delegates at this year’s International Monetary Fund-World Bank meetings in Bangkok, Thailand, should be filled with angst.

Latin America’s transition finance challenge is as much about transforming its economies as it is about mobilising capital.

Chicago Fed president discusses persistent supply shocks, the pain of tightening and why independence matters more than ever Forecasters have pushed back the expected peak of US inflation five times ...

US deficit and the dollar’s reserve status are not separate stories The International Monetary Fund’s 2026 External Sector Report found something that should unsettle the standard story about global ...