This year’s annual United Nations climate talks in Bonn started the way COP28 in Dubai ended last December, with some representatives from developing countries in the Global South feeling excluded ...
The Economic Issues series aims to make available to a broad readership of nonspecialists some of the economic research being produced on topical issues by IMF staff. The series draws mainly from IMF ...
WASHINGTON, December 3, 2025—Developing countries paid out $741 billion more in principal and interest on their external debt than they received in new financing between 2022 and 2024—the largest gap ...
The world is facing more extreme weather that scientists say is fueled by human-driven climate change. The poorest countries have done the least to cause the problem, but they are being hit the ...
Among elites in wealthy countries, a worry about artificial intelligence has taken hold: the machines will take our jobs. With the explosive popularity of ChatGPT, the remarkably lifelike chatbot, ...
IN ONE OF his final acts of global engagement, Pope Francis convened a Jubilee Commission of experts—including ourselves and other leading experts in debt and development—at the Vatican to address a ...
Anna Kristiina Härri receives funding from the Strategic Research Council of Finland. She is affiliated with the Greens in Finland. Jarkko Levänen has received funding from the Research Council of ...
I am honoured to be here in Awaza, to address the Third United Nations Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries. We appreciate the warm welcome of our hosts, the Government and people of ...