Affordability and other complex housing issues challenging governments can be better revealed in broader economic analysis ...

IN the West, countries are facing the fallout from a deep recession and financial crisis. Economic growth is at best tenuous in advanced economies, most of which have large levels of national debt.

Comprehensive, country-specific understanding of housing and mortgage markets can help calibrate monetary policy ...

A newly developed dataset shows how the pandemic’s aftermath ushered in the worst housing affordability crisis in more than a ...

Jordan’s EFF-supported program, approved in January 2024, remains on track. The completion of the second program review makes another SDR 97.784 million (about US$131 million) available to Jordan, out ...

The IMF Executive Board completed today the third review under the Extended Credit Facility Arrangement with the Union of the Comoros. Approval of the third review enables an immediate disbursement of ...

Had walkways been in place between macroeconomics and real estate economics, we might have better anticipated developments ...

It’s impossible to think about economic growth without also thinking about cities’ vital role in connecting the world ...

The way households and businesses react to current and expected future growth is very important for private debt. Given weak ...

Mr. Nigel Clarke, Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), issued the following statement today in Nairobi at the conclusion of his visit to Kenya over December 8–10, 2024: ...

The global economy has faced shock upon shock, testing the resilience of people everywhere. Countries struggling to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic were dealt another blow by Russia’s war on ...