IMF Work
Last updated on May 6, 2025
How the IMF Supports the Global Economy
Surveillance, Capacity Development and Lending
- 2025 Handbook of IMF Facilities for Low-Income Countries
- Poverty Reduction and Growth Trust—Guidance Note on the Strengthened Policy Safeguards
- Methodology and Overview of the IMF’s World Revenue Longitudinal Database
- State Capacity and Growth Regimes
- The HIPC Initiative and China’s Emergence as a Lender: post hoc or propter hoc?
- Designing Expenditure Policy Conditionality in IMF-Supported Programs
- Economic Diversification in Developing Countries: Lessons from Country Experiences with Broad-Based and Industrial Policies
Fragile States
- Foreign Aid and Conflicts: The Effects of 9/11 on Donor Behavior
- The Urgency of Conflict Prevention – A Macroeconomic Perspective
- IMF-Supported Programs in Low-Income Countries: Fragile versus Non-Fragile States
- Global Shocks Unfolding: Lessons from Fragile and Conflict-affected States
- The Role of IMF Arrangements in Restoring Access to International Capital Markets
- Political Fragility: Coups d’État and Their Drivers
Fiscal Frameworks
- Long-Term Spending Pressures in Europe
- Strengthening Fiscal Frameworks in the Presence of Rising Risk of Natural Disasters
- How to Develop and Implement a Medium-Term Fiscal Framework
- Beyond Debt: Net Worth Fiscal Anchors
- A New Fiscal Framework for Resource-Rich Countries
Monetary Policy
- Unconventional Monetary Policies in Small Open Economies
- Navigating Trade-Offs between Price and Financial Stability in Times of High Inflation
- Inflation and Bank Profits: Monetary Policy Trade-offs
- How to Measure the Monetary Policy Stance
- Monetary Policy and Inflation Scares
- A New Dataset of High-Frequency Monetary Policy Shocks
SDRs
- Annual Update on SDR Trading Operations
- Use of SDRs in the Acquisition of Hybrid Capital Instruments of the Prescribed Holders
- 2024 Update of Resource Adequacy of the Poverty Reduction and Growth Trust and the Debt Relief Trusts
- The Financial Cost of Using Special Drawing Rights: Implications of Higher Interest Rates
- How to Record the Allocations of Special Drawing Rights in Government Finance Statistics