The Spanish economy has been performing strongly, supported by services exports and labor force growth. Growth is expected to remain significantly above the euro area average in the near term, before ...

The Spanish economy has been performing strongly, propelled by services exports and labor force growth, including immigration. Growth is projected to reach2.5 percent in 2025, before slowing as its ...

Lithuania has proved resilient to multiple shocks in recent years. However, new challenges are emerging—including further increases in defense expenditure adding to the existing long-term spending ...

Romania’s medium-term fiscal framework calls for the fiscal deficit to decline gradually from about 8 percent of GDP in 2024 to 7 percent in 2025 and 3 percent (or less) by 2031. With limited scope ...

When controlled by a select few, tech innovation can be self-serving and undermine the institutions that make it possible, ...

This note examines the transmission of credit risk of banks to the sovereign using the collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank in March 2023—an event that reverberated globally across banking sectors—as ...

On May 30, 2025, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the 2025 Article IV Consultation with Luxembourg, and considered and endorsed the staff appraisal without a ...

Following two days of high-level dialogue and expert analysis, the inaugural IMF MENA Economic Annual Research Conference co-organized by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the American ...

Luxembourg has strong economic fundamentals and policy buffers, including low public debt. The large financial sector has weathered well the recent shocks and the 2024 FSAP found it sound and well ...

The EU has sought to diversify access to critical minerals through trade agreements. But these remain vulnerable to a ...

A Concluding Statement describes the preliminary findings of IMF staff at the end of an official staff visit (or ‘mission’), in most cases to a member country. Missions are undertaken as part of ...

Increased trade integration helped fuel a spectacular rise in global living standards. Lower trade costs increased global GDP ...