World
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Africa
2/22/2022 6:15:57 PM
The International Monetary Fund could stop its programme in Somalia in three months if long-postponed national elections encounter fresh delays, a senior official told AFP, as she began a mission to the troubled Horn of Africa nation on Tuesday.
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Business
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Economy
2/1/2022 1:56:33 PM
The World Bank Group (WBG) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) announced that their annual autumn joint meetings will be held in Washington DC in October instead of Marrakesh, Morocco due to COVID-19 concerns.
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Business
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Economy
1/25/2022 5:41:58 PM
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) upgraded Egypt’s real GDP growth by 0.4 percent in 2022 to 5.6 percent, compared to the fund’s October 2021 projections, according to Petya Koeva Brooks, the IMF’s deputy director of the research department.
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Business
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Economy
1/25/2022 4:08:40 PM
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has lowered its projections for the global real GDP growth in 2022 to 4.4 percent, down from the 4.9 percent it had projected in October 2021, according to the updated report on the world economic outlook released on Tuesday.
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Business
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Economy
1/24/2022 8:22:35 PM
Executive Director at the International Monetary Fund Mahmoud Mohieldin discussed the effect of inflation on the international economy in a panel discussion on Sunday with Al-Siyassa Al-Dawliya magazine, published by Al-Ahram Foundation.
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World
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Region
1/24/2022 12:14:10 PM
Lebanon's government met on the budget Monday for the first time in more than three months as talks with the International Monetary Fund about the country's economic meltdown were poised to resume.
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World
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Region
1/16/2022 9:32:27 AM
Tunisia's crisis-stricken economy needs "deep reforms" such as slashing its vast public wage bill, the International Monetary Fund's outgoing country chief has said as the government seeks a new bailout.
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Egypt
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Politics
1/13/2022 12:01:48 PM
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi has stressed that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has not imposed the adoption of any obligatory tracks on Cairo when it applied for the global lender-backed economic reform programme in 2016, saying that they were very understanding.
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World
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Region
1/12/2022 9:10:27 PM
Austria's foreign minister said Wednesday that the European Union wants to help Lebanon escape its economic meltdown, but only if the country's leaders clean up Beirut's affairs.
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Business
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Economy
1/12/2022 5:45:28 PM
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) estimated the financing gap of the Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) at $23 billion, urging the international community to close the gap for the sake of boosting recovery from the pandemic, especially in Africa.
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World
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Region
12/28/2021 3:56:00 PM
Lebanon's prime minister said Tuesday that his government's talks with the International Monetary Fund are inching closer to a ``final formula'' for a draft on an agreement before the end of February.
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Business
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Economy
12/15/2021 6:10:58 PM
Global debt hiked by 28 percent in 2020 to reach $226 trillion (256 percent of world GDP) as a result of the coronavirus crisis, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) stated on Wednesday.
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World
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International
11/22/2021 12:03:23 PM
The International Monetary Fund said Monday that weeks of talks with Pakistan have produced a preliminary agreement toward reviving a $6 billion economic bailout for the Islamic nation.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Economy
10/23/2021 12:41:00 PM
Director of the Middle East and Central Asia Department at the International Monetary Fund Jihad Azour explains the economic outlook for the Middle East region to Al-Ahram Weekly
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Business
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Economy
10/19/2021 9:31:56 PM
Egypt was among the few countries that achieved a positive growth last year despite the Covid-19 outbreak, Director of the Middle East and Central Asia Department at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Jihad Azour said Tuesday.
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Business
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Economy
10/19/2021 12:56:43 PM
The Middle East and North Africa is on track to economic recovery, but rising social unrest and unemployment are threatening to hinder "progress", the International Monetary Fund said Tuesday.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Economy
10/14/2021 1:55:00 PM
On the sidelines of the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group board of directors, Deputy Division Chief in the IMF Fiscal Affairs Department Paulo Medas explained how the world is handling coronavirus-induced debt to Al-Ahram Weekly.
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Business
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Economy
10/13/2021 1:15:00 PM
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) projected Egypt’s government gross debt to hit 91.4 percent of its GDP in 2021, up from the 89.8 percent recorded in 2020.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Economy
10/13/2021 12:24:53 AM
International Monetary Fund chief economist Gita Gopinath talks about the global growth trends described in its World Economic Outlook, including forecasts for Egypt, in an interview with Doaa A. Moneim
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Business
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Markets & Companies
10/12/2021 5:40:27 PM
Emerging markets are expected to witness capital and foreign direct investment (FDI) outflows and an abrupt increase in financing costs in the near term amid the uncertainty of the ongoing pandemic, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
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