The U.S.-based International Monetary Fund says global economic growth will be better than expected despite a slowdown in the ...

Therefore, the joint call for IMF reforms by BRICS members is a response to the shifting global power structure. The reforms ...

President Trump’s trade policies are less damaging than expected, with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) upgrading the ...

The International Monetary Fund slashed its forecast for Korea’s economic growth in 2025 to 0.8 percent from 1 percent, citing ongoing uncertainty in the trade environment and sluggish domestic ...

The IMF works in a similar way. Its 191 member countries are assigned individual “quotas” based broadly on their relative positions in the world economy. These quotas are the primary building blocks ...

Europe, in an unprecedented break with tradition, has decided to stay out of the running to chair the International Monetary Fund's main policy-setting committee, IMF board and European sources ...

The IMF warns that trade tensions continue to cast a shadow over the global economy, with high uncertainty despite some trade ...

The IMF said a 1.5-percentage-point decline in global growth would shave an estimated 1 percent from the growth of poorer countries in 2011-12 and have a large, negative impact on poverty.

Member states’ adjustment efforts are expected to stabilize reserve coverage at around 4.3 months of prospective imports in the medium term, slightly below staff’s adequacy metrics for a resource-rich ...