The significant drop in Nigeria’s inflation rate from 34.8 per cent in December 2024 to 15.15 per cent in December last year was largely driven by the monetary policy decisions and structural reforms ...

Lagarde said that even euro-denominated stablecoins would create risks to financial stability and monetary-policy ...

Central banks in late 2021 kicked off the steepest and most coordinated series of interest rate hikes in four decades to contain the postpandemic inflation outbreak (see Chart 1). Many economists ...

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Monetary policy is the actions taken by a central bank to promote economic growth, stabilize prices, and control the money supply.

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Financial conditions indexes summarize a broad range of financial indicators with the goal of measuring how financial markets affect economic activity. Evidence from event studies with high-frequency ...

End-of-Mission press releases include statements of IMF staff teams that convey preliminary findings after a visit to a country. The views expressed in this statement are those of the IMF staff and do ...