The proposed Decision seeks to implement the staff's proposals related to Article IV consultation cycles in Review of the Fund's Mandate-Follow-Up on Modernizing Surveillance, which were endorsed in principle by the Executive Board on September 1, 2010. The goal is to provide for greater...

Four years after the start of the Arab Spring uprisings, the macroeconomic situation in the EU’s Southern Neighbourhood remains weak and vulnerable and the recent intensification of civil strife and military conflicts is exacerbating this economic malaise. Macroeconomic performance may not...

The global crisis has taken its toll on the EU’s prime position in international trade. While the EU still has the largest relative market shares, its position has deteriorated since the crisis, much more so than the US, and its comparative advantage in knowledge-intensive goods has been...