The Executive Board’s decision enables an immediate disbursement worth $333mn million. Sri Lanka agreed to fiscal, monetary, governance and anti-corruption reforms.
March 21, 2023The IMF's Kristalina Georgieva has welcomed "decisive policy actions" by Sri Lankan authorities and the financial assurances obtained from major creditors.
March 16, 2023Bangladesh has sufficient FX reserves for over five months of imports, providing some cushion. It has also taken measures to address its falling FX reserves.
August 3, 2022A new IMF paper calls on policymakers to preserve the effectiveness of capital controls by clarifying the legal status of crypto assets.
May 13, 2022The IMF's new loan-based trust seeks to help lower middle-income countries deal with external shocks like climate change and pandemics.
April 22, 2022A new IMF paper offers lessons on CBDCs drawn from ongoing projects in China, the Bahamas, Sweden, Uruguay, Canada and the ECCU.
February 16, 2022The IMF's executive board reaffirmed its "full confidence" in Georgieva after it could not "conclusively demonstrate" that she played an improper role at the World Bank.
October 15, 2021IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva has denied involvement in alleged data irregularities to improve China’s "Doing Business" ranking.
September 24, 2021The platform brings together experimental climate change indicators to fill existing data gaps and allow comparisons across countries.
April 9, 2021The G7 has also agreed to work with the IMF to enhance transparency and accountability around the usage of SDRs.
March 25, 2021