April 6, 2017/IMF Following a meeting with Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah El Sisi in Washington today, Ms. Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), issued the following statement: “President Sisi and I discussed the progress of Egypt’s economic reform program supported by the IMF’s $12 billion Extended […]
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IMF, Fiji to Co-host a High-Level Dialogue on Building Resilience to Natural Disasters and Climate Change in the Pacific
April 6, 2017/IMF The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Government of Fiji will co-host a high-level Dialogue in Suva on April 7, 2017. The Dialogue on “Building Resilience to Natural Disasters and Climate Change in the Pacific” will build on previous conferences held in Samoa and Vanuatu and recent […]
Services Exports Open a New Path to Prosperity
April 5, 2017/IMF Blog By Prakash Loungani, Chris Papageorgiou, and Ke Wang Services, which already account for 50 percent of world income and 70 percent of employment, are also becoming an important part of international trade. Services exports—accounting for nearly one fourth of total exports—have come to play a central […]
