Comprehensive regulatory reforms, including a simplified and coherent national licensing and permitting policy, can help ...

Thank you very much to the two student associations, HEC European Horizons and HEC Economic Advisory, and to Charlotte Mahnke for the invitation. It is a pleasure to be here at HEC tonight. The last ...

National statistical systems generate the statistics that underpin policy, economic analysis, and public trust. Yet, despite decades of investment in statistical capacity, two persistent challenges, ...

An International Monetary Fund (IMF) staff team, led by Mr. Varapat Chensavasdijai, visited San José during February 25–March 9, 2026 for the 2026 Article IV consultation. At the conclusion of the ...

Our research shows that a comprehensive package of EU-level and national reforms—reducing intra-EU barriers toward U.S. levels and creating a truly integrated Single Market—could raise productivity by ...

Keynote Speech by IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva at Japan's Ministry of Finance's "Future of the Global Economy amid a Fluid International Economic and Monetary Order" Symposium ...

The EU has ambitious goals for climate and energy security. Its targets and policies may have large macroeconomic ...

This Report on the Observance of Standards and Codes—Data Module (Data ROSC) assesses the quality of Cambodia’s key macroeconomic statistics programs. The assessment is based on the 2025 pilot version ...

This paper studies the macroeconomic consequences of undermining central bank independence through politically motivated ...

We build the first global quarterly narrative database of discretionary government spending actions by applying a fixed GPT–4 ...

Building foreign exchange reserves requires sound policies and takes time, but global efforts to lower the cost of holding ...

South Africa exhibits one of the highest levels of income inequality globally, reflecting persistent spatial exclusion. This ...