The UK faces another five years of high interest rates to stem rising prices, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The group expects the UK to have the highest inflation of any G7 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When the World Bank and IMF were conceived 80 years ago, the world was a very different place. Over half of ...

As government officials gather in Washington DC next week for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank Annual Meetings, social security systems around the world are at risk. Faced with ...

THE 24th IMF programme has been approved by the Fund’s Board. As per the Fund’s traditional approach, the programme is grounded in a basic accounting and meaningless framework that relies on a ...

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If budget policies are unchanged, the IMF estimates that large increases in borrowing by the U.S., China and others will drive a rise in government debt to $100 trillion this year Skip to Main Content ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 15 (Reuters) - The world's total public debt is set to exceed $100 trillion this year for the first time, and may grow more quickly than forecast as political sentiment favors ...

Ukraine, besieged by war, pays the IMF hundreds of millions of dollars a year in extra borrowing surcharges in addition to its regular debt payments. The IMF levies those surcharges on countries ...

The IMF's response to the global crisis of 2008–9 marked a significant change from its past policies. The Fund provided relatively large amounts of credit quickly with limited conditions and accepted ...

Pakistan has failed to meet the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) condition to collect Rs10 billion from traders under a new scheme in the first quarter of this fiscal year, managing to collect ...

"The approved measures will lower IMF borrowing costs for members by 36%, or about $1.2 billion annually," Georgieva said in a statement. "The expected number of countries subject to surcharges in ...

International Monetary Fund (IMF) head Kristalina Georgieva tells DW that Africa needs greater representation in the global lending body. Kristalina Georgieva, managing director of the ...