Culled—iMFdirect By Shekhar Aiyar, Christian Ebeke, and Xiaobo Shao In parallel to the aging of the general population, the workforce in the euro area is also growing older. This could cause productivity growth to decline in the years ahead, raising another policy challenge for governments already dealing with legacies from […]

August 12, 2016/IMF “Mr. Dennis Botman has been appointed the IMF’s Senior Resident Representative in Greece and will start his assignment on September 2, 2016. He replaces Mr. Wes McGrew, who is returning to headquarters at the end of a normal three-year rotation assignment, which ends this month. “Mr. Botman, […]

August 11, 2016/IMF In response to a request from the Egyptian authorities, an International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission led by Mr. Chris Jarvis visited Cairo from July 30 to August 11, 2016 to discuss support for the authorities’ economic reform program through IMF financial assistance. At the end of the […]