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Macro · Nov 4, 2026 · 6 min read
Oman's economy grew 3.8% in the first half of 2026, supported by 9.7% growth in petroleum activities, the Ministry of Economy reported to an IMF mission on 4 November. Both parts of the economy grew…
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Macro · Nov 3, 2026 · 7 min read
IMF staff and Jordan reached a staff-level agreement on the sixth Extended Fund Facility review and third Resilience and Sustainability Facility review,…
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Macro · Nov 1, 2026 · 6 min read
Banque du Liban met banks chosen by the Association of Banks in Lebanon in Paris on 27 and 28 October on recapitalising…
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Macro · Oct 30, 2026 · 5 min read
An IMF team is in Cairo for the final reviews of Egypt's two Fund arrangements, which would release a final disbursement of…
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Macro · Oct 23, 2026 · 7 min read
Egypt aims to bring its debt under 70 percent of GDP by June 2030, Finance Minister Ahmed Kouchouk told Egypt Forum 2026…
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IMF · Oct 22, 2026 · 7 min read
Oman is set to grow 4.1 percent this year, according to the International Monetary Fund's Regional Economic Outlook for the Middle East…
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Markets · Oct 18, 2026 · 6 min read
The Egyptian pound stood above its April low on 15 October. On the Central Bank of Egypt's average market buy rate, the…
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International Organizations · Oct 17, 2026 · 6 min read
Saudi Finance Minister Mohammed Al-Jadaan will chair the International Monetary and Financial Committee into a fourth year, and the committee's members, meeting…
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Macro · Oct 16, 2026 · 5 min read
The International Monetary Fund's credit outstanding plus undrawn commitments stands at 240 billion dollars, Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva told the plenary of…
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Macro · Oct 16, 2026 · 4 min read
The economies of the Gulf Cooperation Council are set to grow 9.1 percent in 2027, and the recovery of Qatar's gas capacity…
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Macro · Oct 15, 2026 · 4 min read
The economies of the Middle East, North Africa and Pakistan are projected to grow 6.6 percent in 2027, with oil exporters rebounding…
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Macro · Oct 15, 2026 · 4 min read
UAE GDP growth is "expected to accelerate to around 10 percent in 2027", Central Bank of the UAE Governor Khaled Mohamed Balama…
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Macro · Oct 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Global public debt is expected to exceed 100 percent of world gross domestic product by 2030, a level last reached in the…
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IMF · Oct 13, 2026 · 9 min read
The International Monetary Fund expects Egypt's economy to grow 5.1 percent in 2026 and 4.7 percent in 2027. Its October World Economic…
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Macro · Oct 12, 2026 · 7 min read
International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva described artificial intelligence as "a slow-moving tsunami, but tsunami none the less" at her first…
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Macro · Oct 7, 2026 · 3 min read
Kristalina Georgieva, the International Monetary Fund's managing director, said on 7 October that the world economy faces 3 major crosscurrents: the rapid…
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Macro · Oct 3, 2026 · 2 min read
The International Monetary Fund's Executive Board has concluded the 2026 Comprehensive Surveillance Review, the first comprehensive review of how the Fund monitors…
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International Organizations · Oct 2, 2026 · 3 min read
The International Monetary Fund envisages completing the final review of Egypt's Extended Fund Facility (EFF) together with the third review of its…
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Macro · Oct 1, 2026 · 2 min read
The energy supply shock has been contained, in no small part thanks to the Gulf Cooperation Council's decisive response, IMF Managing Director…
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Macro · Sep 21, 2026 · 3 min read
The IMF's Executive Board has concluded its 2026 Article IV consultation with Algeria, estimating growth at 3.9 percent in 2025 and projecting…
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Macro · Sep 20, 2026 · 3 min read
A staff team from the International Monetary Fund that visited Lebanon from 15 to 18 September has told the Lebanese authorities that…
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Macro · Aug 15, 2026 · 6 min read
The IMF published its 148 page Egypt seventh review staff report on 13 August, projecting inflation of 16.7 percent in the second…
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IMF · Aug 9, 2026 · 6 min read
The eighth and final review of Egypt's programme with the International Monetary Fund is expected to be completed in November, Mohamed Maait,…
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IMF · Aug 1, 2026 · 6 min read
Reports circulated on 31 July and 1 August that Egypt had raised household electricity prices by an average of 12 percent while…
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Macro · Jul 31, 2026 · 3 min read
The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund completed Egypt's seventh review under the Extended Fund Facility and the second review under…
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Macro · Jul 31, 2026 · 8 min read
The IMF reports global current account balances widened in 2025, with oil exporter surpluses shrinking and excessive imbalances accounting for a larger…
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Macro · Jul 30, 2026 · 6 min read
The International Monetary Fund expects Saudi economic growth of 1.7 percent in 2026 before a rebound to 5.5 percent in 2027, as…
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Macro · Jul 30, 2026 · 11 min read
Five Arab economies are projected to carry general government gross debt above 80 percent of gross domestic product in 2026, according to…
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Macro · Jul 29, 2026 · 5 min read
The IMF Executive Board takes Egypt on 30 July, with SDR 2,226.03 million undrawn under an Extended Fund Facility that expires in…
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Macro · Jul 18, 2026 · 3 min read
The International Monetary Fund projected euro-area growth slowing to about 0.9 percent in 2026 and 1.2 percent in 2027, down from 1.4…
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Macro · Jul 18, 2026 · 3 min read
The International Monetary Fund expects several Gulf economies, including Kuwait, to contract in 2026 as the disruption to shipping through the Strait…
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International Organizations · Jul 10, 2026 · 3 min read
The heads of the International Energy Agency, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank Group and the World Trade Organization said the…
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IMF · Jul 9, 2026 · 4 min read
Egypt's two main inflation gauges both stood at 14.3 percent in June, but they arrived there from opposite directions. Annual core inflation…
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Macro · Jul 8, 2026 · 4 min read
The International Monetary Fund cut its forecast for global growth this year to 3.0 percent and lifted its inflation projection, in a…
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Macro · Jul 8, 2026 · 6 min read
Egypt's net international reserves rose to a record US$55.07 billion at the end of June, the Central Bank of Egypt reported, in…
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Macro · Jul 7, 2026 · 4 min read
Algeria's economy is projected to keep growing at a robust pace of about 3.8 percent in 2026, the International Monetary Fund said…
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IMF · Jun 30, 2026 · 6 min read
Egypt has reached a staff-level agreement with the International Monetary Fund on the seventh review of its Extended Fund Facility arrangement and…
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Oman’s economy grew 3.8% in the first half of 2026, supported by 9.7% growth in petroleum activities, the Ministry of Economy reported to an IMF mission on 4 November. Both parts of the economy grew in the first half, and the Fund projects 4.1% growth for Oman for the full year, a figure that covers…
IMF staff and Jordan reached a staff-level agreement on the sixth Extended Fund Facility review and third Resilience and Sustainability Facility review, worth an estimated $294m once the Board approves. For Jordan’s government and its creditors, the agreement keeps a programme approved in January 2024 on track through a war that has cut tourism and…
Banque du Liban met banks chosen by the Association of Banks in Lebanon in Paris on 27 and 28 October on recapitalising lenders and the cash available to repay depositors. For Lebanese depositors, the talks are about sizing rather than paying: the central bank says it is working out how much can be returned and…
An IMF team is in Cairo for the final reviews of Egypt’s two Fund arrangements, which would release a final disbursement of an estimated $2.33 billion, the IMF said. For Egypt, staff-level agreement and Board approval before the Extended Fund Facility expires on 15 December would complete a programme the Board approved in December 2022….
Egypt aims to bring its debt under 70 percent of GDP by June 2030, Finance Minister Ahmed Kouchouk told Egypt Forum 2026 on 23 October. The ministry put government debt at 81.9 percent of GDP in June 2026. The budget sector also reduced its external debt by an estimated 6.5 billion dollars over 3 years,…
Oman is set to grow 4.1 percent this year, according to the International Monetary Fund’s Regional Economic Outlook for the Middle East and Central Asia, published on 22 October. Egypt is projected at 5.1 percent for its 2026 fiscal year, which runs July to June. The Fund’s baseline assumes the conflict abates in early 2027…
The Egyptian pound stood above its April low on 15 October. On the Central Bank of Egypt’s average market buy rate, the dollar’s price was 53.4134 pounds that day, against its 7 April peak of 54.6537. The dollar had climbed to that peak from 47.8714 on 26 February, the last published date before the conflict…
Saudi Finance Minister Mohammed Al-Jadaan will chair the International Monetary and Financial Committee into a fourth year, and the committee’s members, meeting in Bangkok on 17 October, agreed text that stresses secure and resilient energy flows and the principle of freedom of navigation as essential to global economic stability. In the same text, members said…
The International Monetary Fund’s credit outstanding plus undrawn commitments stands at 240 billion dollars, Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva told the plenary of the 2026 Annual Meetings in Bangkok on 16 October, and its concessional lending, at 36 billion dollars, is roughly four times its historical average. She said unused lending capacity is roughly three times…
The economies of the Gulf Cooperation Council are set to grow 9.1 percent in 2027, and the recovery of Qatar’s gas capacity will now take a year and a half rather than three years, Jihad Azour, Director of the IMF’s Middle East and Central Asia Department, told a regional briefing in Bangkok on 15 October….