The Latest Breaking News from International Monetary Fund

The International Monetary Fund has assured Ukraine of its support by all possible means, Ukraine's finance ministry said on Saturday.

Ukraine has requested additional aid from the IMF following the Russian invasion, the fund's leader Kristalina Georgieva said Friday. The crisis lender has an existing $2.2 billion aid program with Kyiv and "the authorities have also requested IMF emergency financing," Georgieva said in a statement. The fund's board met to…

The International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday it had made "good progress" in talks with Tunisia ultimately aimed at a possible rescue package to avert what economists fear is a rapidly looming crisis in the country's public finances. The fund on Tuesday completed a week of online meetings with Tunisian…

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission concluded virtual talks on Tunisia by calling on the authorities to implement structural economic reforms. Tunisian sources reported that the Fund stressed the need to reduce subsidies on essential goods such as petrol and staple foods, adding that state resources should be invested in…

By the year 2000, the government of Ghana had borrowed so much that the country was in debt distress. It then subscribed to the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries initiative of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. Consequently, much of the country’s external debt of over US$4 billion was written…

Tunisia and the International Monetary Fund are in preliminary talks, with an eye on a potential multi-billion-dollar rescue deal for an economy plagued by recession, public debt, inflation and unemployment. The North African nation on Monday started talks with the Washington-based crisis lender, which has called for "deep reforms" and…

Costa Rica's leading presidential candidate Jose Maria Figueres said he would negotiate adjustments to the country's billion-dollar agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) if elected, an effort to contrast his policy with the outgoing president.

Argentina's deal with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to refinance over $40 billion in debts is trudging closer to the finish line, despite protests in the South American country that has a long and uneasy history with the global lender.

A key IMF-supported programme funding military wages and other essential services in Somalia could expire in May if there are any further delays to elections, the chief International Monetary Fund representative in the country said.