International Monetary Fund

West Asia war: IMF cuts global growth forecast, but India gets slight bump-up to 6.5%

April 15, 2026 1:45 am

The IMF’s forecast assumes the war in West Asia will go on for “a few more weeks” and that production and exports from the region will normalise by the middle of 2026.

'Sure of remarkable change in IMF's assessment of Indian statistics'

December 25, 2025 5:31 am

Last month, the IMF had retained its overall 'B' grade on India's official statistics and 'C' grade for the GDP data.

Pakistan's central bank receives $1.2 billion from IMF for climate resilience

December 11, 2025 5:12 pm

The amount was released after the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) Executive Board had completed the second review of the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) and the first of the Resilience and Sustainability Facility (RSF), the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) said in a statement here.

Ahead of MoSPI revision, IMF retains ‘C’ grade for India’s GDP data series

November 29, 2025 5:17 am

The grade was given by the IMF in its annual staff report on India for 2025, released on Wednesday.

IMF flags Pakistan’s corruption, eroding public trust, system favouring elite

November 23, 2025 8:57 am

The report comes at a time of the controversial 27th constitutional amendment, which increases the powers of Pakistan Army chief Field Marshal Asim Munir and curtails the powers of the Supreme Court by establishing another court above it.

AI mania masks economic fissures and rising uncertainty

November 08, 2025 7:50 am

The AI frenzy is propelling markets to ever-new highs. The pressures and problems of the present are being ignored for the (yet untested) promise of the future. Markets may be priced to perfection. But reality rarely follows suit.

P Chidambaram writes: Many perspectives, one conclusion

October 19, 2025 9:26 am

While the quantity of infrastructure built in the last decade has been large (and the amounts spent colossal), the quality has been appalling — obsolete design and technology, falling bridges, collapsing buildings, and new highways that are washed away after the first rain. On quality jobs, the less said the better

Patel, who fell out with Govt as RBI chief, now picked for IMF

August 30, 2025 1:30 am

Patel’s appointment as an ED at the IMF marks a return to policy circles for the former RBI governor.

IMF upgrades India’s FY26 GDP growth forecast to 6.4% as trade tensions ease

July 29, 2025 6:52 pm

China’s growth forecast for 2025 got the biggest bump-up from the IMF and its GDP is now seen expanding 4.8 per cent in 2025, up from 4 per cent predicted in April.

'Today, we're 4th largest economy...days are over when India was considered a soft state': Sudhanshu Trivedi

July 28, 2025 3:55 pm

"The Word Bank has stated that 16 crore people have been lifted out of extreme poverty. Today, we are the fourth largest economy in the world," he said.

International Monetary Fund Chief Christine Lagarde Convicted

June 22, 2020 7:17 pm