This report presents the findings and recommendations from the 2025 assessment of Botswana’s public sector debt statistics (PSDS) in relation to the IMF’s Data Quality Assessment Framework (DQAF) for ...

Notes: These representative exchange rates, which are reported to the Fund by the issuing central bank, are expressed in terms of currency units per U.S. dollar, except for those indicated by (1) ...

A key challenge facing the UK is to increase growth, which has slowed down markedly since the Global Financial Crisis. As part of the government’s approach to this challenge, a new industrial strategy ...

The UK’s productivity gap with the US has widened over the past two decades, with productivity growth rates decoupling after the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). This paper complements existing studies ...

Cyber risk is highly relevant to the financial sector and financial stability of Canada. According to the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (CCCS), in 2021, 23.9 percent of finance and insurance ...

值得注意的是，尽管地缘经济割裂在日益加剧，联合国统计委员会仍于今年3月一致批准了这一广泛的全面更新。这是《国民账户体系》近90年历史中的第六次更新。《国民账户体系》是用于衡量国家指标的一个全球性标准，这些指标包括生产、收入、消费、资本投资、金融活动， ...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has decided to close its Resident Representative Office in San José, which has been headed by Mr. Santiago Acosta-Ormaechea, effective mid-October 2025.

The cornerstones of our digital world—from smartphone apps to new digital assets and artificial intelligence tools—didn’t exist back in 2008, the last time the world’s statistical community overhauled ...

This web page provides information on official IMF reports and Executive Board documents in English that deal with the Kyrgyz Republic.

In the context of Uzbekistan’s transition to a market-based economy, the authorities have undertaken several reform measures that strengthened banking supervision. Starting in 2019, a new central bank ...

El Fondo Monetario Internacional (FMI) ha decidido cerrar la Oficina del Representante Residente en San José, la cual estaba dirigida por el Sr. Santiago Acosta Ormaechea, a partir de mediados de octu ...

Quantitative easing (QE) has been criticized for helping fuel the post-COVID inflation boom and causing large central bank losses. In this paper, we argue that QE should be evaluated mainly on its ...