IMF confirms unanimous decision to provide additional funds to Pakistan; India abstains, plans to lobby against further funding.

During a press briefing in Washington D.C., IMF Director of the Communications Department, Julie Kozack, said, “Our Board found that Pakistan had indeed met all of the targets.

This so-called Washington consensus has been touted as the solution to the problems of many developing countries with mixed results. Yet, if your currency is bleeding, do you borrow to save it ...

The International Monetary Fund, the global lender of last resort for national governments, will meet on Friday to consider a new $1.3 billion loan to Pakistan under its Resilience and ...

IMF and World Bank meetings in Washington end with few answers on US tariffs During the whirlwind week, many finance and trade ministers sought to meet with U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent ...

Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe is to travel to Washington for the 2025 Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank.

Washington makes a turbulent backdrop to the spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, headquartered in the US capital as anchors of America’s economic and financial clout.

IMF support makes developing nations more resilient, allowing them to stand on their own feet, reducing the need for U.S. foreign aid. The IMF is a great financial deal for America.

The IMF and the World Bank are monuments to misguided economic thinking and policies that have brought much misery to the peoples of the Global South.

Here’s a somewhat simplified summary of the way it used to work: In the 1990s during the era known as the “Washington Consensus,” the IMF would typically enter a country facing an economic ...

The two institutions it promoted—of free-market capitalism and electoral democracy— didn’t combine to serve everyone equitably, as its advocates had promised. Fukuyama’s ‘end of history ...

Washington, DC: The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded today the Review of Charges and the Surcharge Policy. [1] Ms. Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director of the IMF, ...