Tag: International Monetary Fund, IMF

• Friday, June 10th 2016 - 08:08 UTC

  World Bank slashes global growth forecast to 2.4%, down from 2.9%

  

  The World Bank has slashed its 2016 global growth forecast to 2.4% from the 2.9% estimated in January, due to stubbornly low commodity prices, sluggish demand in advanced economies, weak trade and diminishing capital flows.

• Saturday, May 14th 2016 - 08:55 UTC

  US$ 2 trillion lost to bribery and corruption every year, (2% of global GDP), claims IMF

  

  Bribery and corruption cost the world economy as much as US$2 trillion every year, money that instead could be used to fight poverty, create jobs, and protect the environment. A new report by the International Monetary Fund says the money lost to corruption every year is 2% of the global GDP.

• Friday, April 29th 2016 - 06:18 UTC

  Latam and Caribbean forecasted to contract 0.5% in 2016, worst two-year since 1982, says IMF

  

  Latin America and the Caribbean will post an overall 0.5% economic contraction in 2016, the International Monetary Fund forecast in its latest report, capping the region's worst two-year period since the 1982 debt crisis. But the IMF said the region is expected to rebound to 1.5% growth in 2017, avoiding the “lost decade” phenomenon that marked the 1980s.

• Friday, April 29th 2016 - 06:08 UTC

  IMF praises Argentina's new focus despite an expected contraction of 1% this year

  

  Argentina's GDP is expected to contract by about 1% in 2016, according to the latest IMF Regional Economic Outlook; Western Hemisphere, announced on Wednesday in Mexico. The chapter on Argentina makes a special mention of the new government's changes to remove macroeconomic imbalances.

• Sunday, April 24th 2016 - 08:26 UTC

  International major effort to cooperate on tax issues and halt evasion and elusion

  

  The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank are joining forces with other international organizations to cooperate on tax issues and develop new tools and standards to halt tax base erosion and evasion.

• Tuesday, April 19th 2016 - 00:44 UTC

  Brazil's steep recession forecasted to continue in 2017 as economic pessimism deepens

  

  As the political battle to remove president Dilma Rousseff rages on, with both sides seeming to ignore the necessary confidence and certainty for normal business, economists are becoming increasingly pessimistic about Brazil's economic outlook.

• Monday, April 18th 2016 - 08:06 UTC

  Praise for Argentina from IMF and credit rating agencies but austerity measures “are tough”

  

  Following President Mauricio Macri’s economic policies and the deal with the holdout funds, Argentina will help to bring stability and a larger economic growth to Latin America, now facing a declining economy mainly because of Brazil’s downfall, representatives from the International Monetary Fund said.

• Friday, April 15th 2016 - 05:22 UTC

  IMF and World Bank target Brexit: 'the most serious downside risk' for the global economy

  

  A British exit from the European Union would pose “serious downside risks” to an already slowing global economy, the head of the International Monetary Fund said on Thursday.

• Monday, April 11th 2016 - 05:46 UTC

  Argentina ready to formally join the IMF fold; Prat-Gay to meet Lagarde this week

  

  Argentina will start discussions with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) this week on its first Article IV review in a decade, Finance Minister Alfonso Prat Gay said at a conference held by the Institute of International Finance (IIF) in Nassau. “Next week we are going to have a discussion (with the IMF) to agree on an actual schedule for the next Article IV evaluation, which will happen sometime around September,” Prat Gay told the audience on Sunday.

• Friday, February 26th 2016 - 07:49 UTC

  IMF warns global economy has weakened and is highly vulnerable to adverse shocks

  

  The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said the global economy has weakened further and warned it was “highly vulnerable to adverse shocks” and the weakening has come “amid increasing financial turbulence and falling asset prices”.