Real GDP growth is projected at 4.4 percent in 2026, supported by strong agriculture output and public infrastructure investment. Scaling up public investment offers opportunities for stronger growth ...

Southeast Asia’s major economies have made major strides over the last couple of decades. The largest have seen income per capita grow at least three-fold over the past 20 years amid global ...

Many countries are ramping up industrial policy to boost innovation in specific sectors in the hope of reigniting productivity and long-term growth, amid security concerns. Major initiatives are ...

In light of recent global shocks and rising external volatility, there is a growing need to effectively monitor short-term ...

The Spanish economy has continued to perform strongly, expanding significantly faster than euro area peers. Notwithstanding the adverse effect and heightened uncertainty from the conflict in the ...

Comprehensive regulatory reforms, including a simplified and coherent national licensing and permitting policy, can help ...

This paper develops a methodology to assess the impact of a trade diversification strategy on aggregate import costs. Using ...

Financial conditions have tightened as central banks continue to hike interest rates. Amid the highly uncertain global environment risks to financial stability have increased substantially. Major ...

Since the Group of Twenty’s foundational Pittsburgh conference in 2009, progress toward its goal of strong, sustainable, balanced, and inclusive growth has been modest. While G20 economies have shown ...

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) today completed the ninth and tenth reviews under the Extended ...

New technologies like artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotics, big data, and networks are expected to revolutionize production processes, but they could also have a major impact on ...

Uncertainty is not as easily measured as traditional indicators like growth or inflation, but economists have built some reliable proxies. One of the best-known gauges is the Economic Policy ...