Comprehensive regulatory reforms, including a simplified and coherent national licensing and permitting policy, can help ...

This paper presents a global empirical analysis of how industrial policies (IPs) affect patent applications, with an instrumental-variable strategy that addresses selection in policy targeting by ...

Powering Economic Development - Keynote Speech by IMF Deputy Managing Director Nigel Clarke at the Inter-America Development Bank Annual Meetings in Paraguay ...

Aasaavari, Nitya Abad, José Abadi, Sara Abajyan, Gohar Abbas, Ali Abbas, Nassira Abbas, S. M. Ali Abbott, John M Abbritti, Mirko Abdallah, Chadi Abdel Monem, Heba ...

This paper employs a Growth-at-Risk (GaR) framework to assess the impact of macro-financial variables on the growth rate distribution of Malta over a one-to-two-year horizon. The analysis suggests ...

This paper examines how Malta’s justice system impacts the efficiency of debt enforcement and insolvency proceedings, with implications for credit allocation and business and investment environment.

This paper presents a nowcasting model for global trade that allows for regional dynamics and spillovers. World trade growth is driven by common global factors but also regional trends. While existing ...

Capital markets integration, expanding opportunities for workers, and bigger consumer markets will allow companies to grow faster ...

Good afternoon, Thank you, President Letta, for the kind invitation to speak at IE University—a university that embodies exactly what Europe needs more of: entrepreneurship, ope ...

Keynote Speech by IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva at Japan's Ministry of Finance's "Future of the Global Economy amid a Fluid International Economic and Monetary Order" Symposium ...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) conducted a technical assistance mission to the People's Republic of China to enhance risk assessment methodologies within the State Taxation Administration (STA) ...

This report presents the results of a repeat Tax Administration Diagnostic Assessment Tool (TADAT) assessment conducted in Bangladesh during October 2025. The assessment evaluated the National Board ...