IMF

Egypt hopes to receive the first $750 million installment of a recently approved International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan before the end of the year, the Finance Minister, Mohamed Maait,...

Most private flour mills in Egypt, the world's largest importer of wheat, have been forced to shut down due to a supply crisis, Africa Intelligence website revealed on Monday....

The Secretary-General of the Tunisian General Labour Union (UGTT), Noureddine Taboubi, warned yesterday of any step that could dismantle the troubled public sector institutions within the package of reforms...

In many ways, the COP27 climate conference being held in Egypt is a cruel but necessary irony. The tyranny of the host government — the sweeping arrests, arbitrary checking...

World leaders, policymakers and delegates from nearly 200 countries are at the COP27 UN Climate Summit in Egypt, where they hope to keep alive a goal to avert the worst...

The Head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has called for a global standard on carbon pricing, emphasising the goal to reach stated climate goals by the year 2030....

Oman recorded a budget surplus of $2.92bn (OR1.12), the country's Finance Ministry says, local media reports. According to the report, the high price of oil and an increase in gas...

Egypt's non-oil private sector has continued to sharply contract in October, marking the 23rd consecutive month of decline, a report by S&P Global showed yesterday. The S&P Global Egypt...

Jordan's Prime Minister, Bisher Al Khasawneh, announced a cabinet reshuffle on Thursday to improve his administration's performance under IMF-guided economic reforms, Reuters reports. The British-educated former veteran diplomat and...

Egypt announced, Thursday, a 3-billion-dollar agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to shore up its economy, Anadolu News Agency reports. "The IMF's $3 billion loan is part of...

Egypt is pushing to tie up a crucial financial package from the International Monetary Fund at annual meetings in Washington this week, hoping to stem a currency crisis that...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan which Tunisia is working to obtain will help the country's general budget but not solve its economic crisis, former Minister of Trade and...

The Director-General of the International Monetary Fund, Kristalina Georgieva, said on Tuesday that the economies of the Gulf States are expected to grow by 6.5 per cent this year....

Tunisia's powerful UGTT Labour Union has no deal with the government on reforming subsidies and publicly owned companies and will lead street protests over any "painful" changes, it said...

Lebanon's Parliament passed the 2022 budget on Monday, using an exchange rate for customs tax revenues that lies far below the market value of the Lebanese pound, falling short...

Egyptian Finance Minister Mohamed Maait has told Bloomberg said that his country will not get a new loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) until after one or two...

Tunisia is struggling to revive its public finances as dissatisfaction grows, inflation reaches 8.6 per cent and there are food shortages in stores

Lebanon's progress in implementing reforms required to unlock relief funds from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) remains very slow, the IMF said in a statement on Wednesday, Reuters reports....

Lebanon's Parliament, on Friday, suspended talks on the 2022 budget after a walk-out by lawmakers sent attendance below quorum, further delaying efforts to complete requirements to access IMF funds...

The International Monetary Fund said on Thursday that a staff mission will visit Lebanon next week to discuss ways to "speed up" implementation of agreed reforms required for an...

The Tunisian General Labour Union (UGTT) has announced the "failure" of negotiations with the government to increase the wages of public sector employees. The influential union said that the...

Five months after Lebanon's draft IMF deal raised hopes it could finally pull together an economic reform plan to address its financial meltdown, political and financial elites are obstructing...

The budget deficit in Tunisia declined 75 per cent during the first half of 2022, amid an increase in the country's fiscal revenue. This was revealed according to data...

The IMF said, in a statement issued on Tuesday, following a 12-day visit to the Palestinian Territories that the local economy grew in 2021 by 7.1 per cent, and...

The IMF and the World Bank nudged the relatively closed countries towards greater capital account liberalisation over the last few decades, sometimes pushing them using stern conditionality. Now, when...

Gulf Arab States are set to provide Pakistan with a total of around $4 billion to help alleviate its severe financial crisis. According to the news outlet, Bloomberg, the...

The Pakistani army is to provide security at the upcoming FIFA World Cup in Qatar at the end of this year after the country's federal cabinet approved a draft...

Lebanese parliament speaker Nabih Berri said on Saturday he would not call for a session to elect a new president until the legislature passes reforms that are preconditions for...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Friday it had held productive discussions during a staff visit to Egypt on economic policies and reforms to be supported by an...

Governments in the Middle East must implement modern and fair tax systems to meet challenges such as hiking spending to protect the poor from issues including soaring food and...

Lebanon's top finance lawmaker said Prime Minister designate, Najib Mikati, had verbally proposed "very serious" changes to a recently adopted plan to revamp the collapsed financial sector, in a...

A delegation from the International Monetary Fund will visit Tunisia on Monday to start negotiations over a loan programme, a Central Bank official told Reuters on Friday. This follows the...