The continued lack of climate risk analysis in IMF lending may heighten macroeconomic risks faced by climate-vulnerable ...

By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON, Sept 24 (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund on Thursday called for targeted refinements to the design and implementation of its loan programs, including a focus on ...

On September 14, 2026, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the 2026 Review of Program Design and ...

This paper provides the analytical foundation for the reform proposals discussed in the 2026 Review of Program Design and Conditionality. Drawing on empirical analysis, case studies, and broad ...

However, a new agreement could involve greater scrutiny and more severe structural targets, thus leaving Bangladesh with less ...

IMF programmes in Africa are stalling or being abandoned in countries such as Kenya, Senegal and Ghana, while others, including Nigeria and Angola, have exited altogether. Zambia’s August 2025 request ...

While quoting the research of the book ‘A thousand cuts: social spending in the age of austerity’ in the previous part of this series of articles, it was pointed out that there existed a negative ...

For much of the 2000s, Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) seemed to have finally distanced itself from the International Monetary Fund. The ...