Economic growth will remain positive in 2026, but slow to 0.6 percent as higher energy prices weigh on consumption. Growth is expected to recover gradually thereafter, with a stronger rebound expected ...

Austria started to slowly recover in 2025 after two years of recession, but the energy shock due to the Middle East conflict is weighing on the outlook. A large and complex banking sector with ...

An International Monetary Fund (IMF) team, led by Ms. Iva Petrova, held discussions on the third review under the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) and the second review under the Resilience and ...

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

The largest disruption to the global oil market in decades should have sent prices soaring. But after spiking at the start of the war in the Middle East, crude prices soon settled in a range of $90 to ...

The UAE economy has shown remarkable resilience to the conflict in the Middle East, supported by strong buffers, timely and well-targeted policy response including by the government and the CBUAE ...

The UK economy has remained resilient, but the war in the Middle East has dampened near-term growth prospects. Growth is projected to slow to 1.0 percent in 2026 before gradually recovering as the ...

The war in the Middle East has weakened the euro area outlook, with growth projected to slow from 1.4 percent in 2025 to 0.9 percent in 2026 and 1.2 percent in 2027 and headline inflation projected to ...

This Government Finance Statistics Manual 2014 (GFSM 2014) describes the macroeconomic statistical framework (the GFS framework) designed to support fiscal analysis. The manual provides the economic ...

Growth in sub-Saharan Africa in 2023 is expected to fall for the second year in a row to 3.3 percent. But inflation is falling, public finances are stabilizing, and growth is set to rebound to 4.0 ...

IMF staff and the Yemeni authorities have reached a staff-level agreement on the key economic policies and reforms that could underpin a Staff-Monitored Program. The proposed 18-month SMP aims to ...