• 

  IMF cuts global growth outlook, cites trade war and weak Europe

  Reuters . Davos | Updated at 12:00am on January 22, 2019

  The International Monetary Fund on Monday cut its world economic growth forecasts for 2019 and 2020, due to weakness in Europe and some emerging markets,...

• 

  Pakistani rupee tumbles in chaotic trading as IMF bailout looms

  Reuters . Karachi/Islamabad | Updated at 12:00am on December 01, 2018

  The Pakistani rupee swang wildly during chaotic trading on Friday, plunging more than 6 per cent in the morning in an apparent central bank devaluation...

• 

  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...

• 

  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...

• 

  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...

• 

  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...

• 

  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...

• 

  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...

• 

  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...

• 

  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...