Opening Remarks by the IMF First Deputy Managing Director Gita Gopinath at the Conference on “Sri Lanka’s Road to Recovery: Debt and Governance” Shangri-La Hotel Colombo ...

Cross-border payments are essential to the global financial system, facilitating trade and investment. The global cross-border traditional and crypto payment market approached a value of about one ...

Focusing on a cross-border perspective, this paper identifies four key binding constraints that hinder firms’ ability to innovate and scale up within the EU single market—fragmented regulations, ...

During a major crisis, the transitional dynamics of conditional convergence are unlikely to apply. In this paper, we introduce a Markov chain approach which integrates the study of crises and ...

The European Union’s budget—known as the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF)—has over time been a key tool for enhancing economic efficiency, achieving redistribution, and helping the Union tackle ...

Une équipe des services du Fonds monétaire international (FMI), dirigée par Mme Wenjie Chen s'est rendue à Bamako du 9 au 13 juin 2025 pour mener les consultations de 2025 au titre de l'article IV ave ...

An International Monetary Fund (IMF) staff team, led by Ms. Wenjie Chen, visited Bamako from June 9 to 13, 2025, to conduct the 2025 Article IV consultation with the Malian authorities. The team held ...

Spain's GDP per capita gap with highest-income euro area economies and the US is mainly due to a productivity shortfall. Spanish tech firms lag in productivity and innovation, partly due to weaker R&D ...

This paper examines Spain’s investment performance five years after the COVID-19 pandemic. As of 2024, investment had only returned to pre-pandemic levels and remained below historical fundamentals ...

Increased longevity and population aging pose growing fiscal challenges for Spain, which can be mitigated by encouraging greater labor force participation among older workers. Over the past decade, ...

Spain aims to cut greenhouse gas emissions, which implies further 30 percent cut from 2023 levels by 2030, requiring new measures beyond current efforts. Emission intensity varies widely across ...

Dominica is a small developing state (SDS) facing large economic imbalances, natural disasters (NDs), and substantial development needs amid slowing potential growth. Its narrow economic base ...