by Asharq Al-Awsat | Nov 16, 2016 | Business
Kuwait- The Central Bank of Kuwait announced that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission to Kuwait expected a gradual revival in Kuwaiti non-oil sectors GDP up to 3.5% in the upcoming year and 4% in later years. The mission, in its concluding statement, also...
by Heba El Koudsy | Sep 17, 2016 | Business
Washington-Armed conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa are not only devastating the economies gripped by fighting but are also sapping growth in neighboring countries and those hosting millions of refugees, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Friday....
by Ahmad al- Ghamrawi and Lamia Nabil | Aug 18, 2016 | Interviews
Cairo- Masood Ahmed has been the director of the Middle East and Central Asia Department at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) since 2008. Ahmed is willing to step down from his post on October, a decision that International Monetary Fund Chief Christine Lagarde...
by Luisa Polido | Aug 17, 2016 | World
Bogota-Venezuela, one of the richest Latin American countries thanks to oil, is also a country that lacks food, medicine and daily essentials. It seems to be following the footsteps of its ally Iran. Humanitarian and social situations reached a dramatic level in which...
by Assma al-Khawli | Jun 15, 2016 | Business
Following long negotiations, Iraq has agreed on applying the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) measures to receive loans of $5.4 billion over three years to help the country on surviving a liquidity crisis led by the decline of revenues in line with the significant...