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  Next IMF loan will be ‘the last’: Pakistan finance minister

  Agence France-Presse . Islamabad | Updated at 01:20am on October 21, 2018

  Pakistan’s finance minister promised Saturday to end the country’s reliance on International Monetary Fund bailouts to shore up its shaky economy, as officials prepare to...

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  Emerging economies struggle to contain capital outflows

  Reuters . Indonesia | Updated at 12:00am on October 15, 2018

  After suffering months of capital outflows, policy makers from emerging markets attending IMF-World Bank meetings in Indonesia had a message for leading economies: current monetary...

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  At IMF meetings, China’s globalisation agenda left behind in trade debate

  Reuters . Indonesia | Updated at 12:00am on October 15, 2018

  Three days before US president Donald Trump took office in January 2017, Chinese president Xi Jinping portrayed Beijing as the champion and defender of globalisation...

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  Bangladesh ahead of South Asian countries

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:06am on October 12, 2018

  Bangladesh performed better than the South Asian countries average and the Lower Middle-Income countries average in all criteria except for stunting, showed the World Bank’s...

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  An IMF bailout set to impede Pakistan PM’s populist agenda

  Reuters . Islamabad | Updated at 12:00am on October 13, 2018

  From cutting power subsidies to forcing currency devaluations that stoke inflation, the hard choices facing Pakistan as it seeks a bailout from the International Monetary...

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  IMF warns against trade, currency wars, urges fix to global rules

  Reuters . Nusa Dua | Updated at 12:00am on October 12, 2018

  International Monetary Fund managing director Christine Lagarde on Thursday warned countries against engaging in trade and currency wars that hurt global growth and imperil ‘innocent...

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  Global financial stability risks rising with trade tensions, IMF says

  Reuters | Updated at 12:05am on October 11, 2018

  Risks to the global financial system have risen over the past six months and could increase sharply if pressures in emerging markets escalate or global...

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  IMF cuts world economic growth forecasts on tariff war

  Reuters . Indonesia | Updated at 12:05am on October 10, 2018

  The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday cut its global economic growth forecasts for 2018 and 2019, saying that the US-China trade war was taking a...

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  Pakistan rupee plunges in de facto devaluation as IMF talks loom

  Reuters . Islamabad | Updated at 12:05am on October 10, 2018

  The Pakistani rupee plunged about 7 per cent on Tuesday in an apparent central bank devaluation, while the stock market snapped a six-day skid after...

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  IMF projects Bangladesh GDP growth to fall to 7.1pc

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:05am on October 10, 2018

  International Monetary Fund on Tuesday projected that Bangladesh gross domestic product (GDP) growth would fall to 7.1 per cent in the current fiscal year 2018-2019...