This 2013 Article IV Consultation highlights that since the robust recovery from the global financial crisis, Singapore’s growth momentum has eased and become more erratic. Growth decelerated to 1¼ percent in 2012 before picking up sharply in the first half of 2013. This reflects...

This Technical Assistance Report discusses the findings and recommendations made by the IMF mission about the compilation of Coordinated Direct Investment Survey and Coordinated Portfolio Investment Survey (CPIS) in El Salvador. The mission recommended the authorities to research the nature of...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARYDuring the last ten years Rwanda has experienced one of the most exciting andfastest periods of growth and socio-economic progress in its history. It was tenth fastestgrowing economy in the world during the decade from 2000. At the same time more than amillion people have been...

CONTEXTRwanda has enjoyed strong economic performance over the last decade, supported bysignificant external aid and close engagement with the Fund, including under a PSIsince 2010. The authorities have requested a new three-year PSI in support of theirnew poverty reduction strategy (EDPRS...

This 2014 Article IV Consultation and Second Review Under the Policy Support Instrument highlights that Rwanda's economic performance since the turn of the century has been remarkable. Strong policies have played a key role in maintaining real GDP growth at 7.8 percent on average since 2000,...

This Selected Issues paper investigates the economic importance of institutions in Ukraine, and attempts to quantify the potential benefits of market-friendly structural reforms. The paper reviews some of the key findings of the development-accounting literature, which has tried to explain the...

This paper focuses on the Fourth Review Under the Staff-Monitored Program (SMP) for Afghanistan. Under the SMP, Afghanistan continued to make progress in improving macroeconomic management, strengthening its capacity to formulate policy, and creating conditions for sustainable economic growth....

This Selected Issues paper on Morocco analyzes Morocco’s growth performance over the past thirty-five years with a special focus on the more recent past. The paper presents stylized trends in growth; it first puts the overall growth performance of Morocco in an international perspective,...