The global economy has slowed, with important consequences for growth prospects in Latin America and the Caribbean. The slowdown in economic activity has been broad-based among advanced economies and more…

Assesses the financial stability challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. The report describes how financial conditions tightened abrubtly with the onset of the pandemic, highlights the challenges of managing flows…

Analyses global external developments and provides multilaterally consistent assessments of external positions, including current accounts, real exchange rates, external balance sheets, capital flows, and international reserves, of the world’s largest…

This issue of the yearbook presents, for 186 countries, figures on the value of merchandise exports and imports by trade partners for the years 1993 through 1999, as well as…

This book was originally published as a monograph in the International encyclopaedia of laws/Intergovernmental Organizations.

This Departmental Paper takes stock of Senegal’s achievements in the past few years under IMF-supported programmes and identifies key reform pillars for the future. IMF staff analyse Senegal’s new development…

During the 1990s, Suriname was subject to exogenous shocks that were exacerbated by inadequate macroeconomic policy responses. During that decade, fiscal and monetary policies tended to vastly amplify the effects…