The COVID-19 pandemic has weakened the fiscal positions of local governments in China, while the recent stress in the Chinese property market has further compounded this issue, calling for stronger ...

Lithuania’s immediate fiscal challenges are national security and higher costs of borrowing, but fiscal prospects are further exacerbated by long-term pressures stemming from climate change and a ...

Two years since thousands of protesters swarmed the presidential palace in Sri Lanka, voters are heading to the polls, where ...

Sri Lanka's presidential election on September 21 features 39 candidates, including frontrunners Wickremesinghe, Premadasa, and Dissanayake.

The draft budget estimates Ukraine's need for foreign financing in 2025 at $38.4 billion. The Finance Ministry said the estimate was agreed with International Monetary Fund (IMF) experts during their ...

Surcharges neither ensure repayment nor protect IMF finances. Their main effect is to increase the burden of debt payments ...

Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), announced today her intention to appoint Ms. Yan Liu ...

US and allies want to shuffle such discussions to the Bretton Woods institutions, where they enjoy a blocking minority ...

Sri Lanka will vote to elect the next President on Saturday. While current President Ranil Wickremesinghe is seeking another ...

Leftist frontrunner promises crackdown on ‘corrupt’ politicians and calls for revisiting deals with IMF and bondholders ...

Central banks face a "difficult balancing act" as they start lowering interest rates around the world in the face of falling ...

This weekend’s UN Summit of the Future shows that while countries are at odds, most are still looking for ways to work ...