The iPhone is priced correctly in China’s customs trade data. A seemingly banal observation that leads to big questions about China’s post 2022 balance of payments methodology.

The IMF should take a mulligan on the 2024 External Sector Report. The imbalance in China’s goods trade is expanding, not receding. It is too big for the IMF to ignore.

The most recent data from the Debt Management Office shows that Nigeria last year spent $4.66 billion to service its foreign debt, of which $1.63 billion was to the IMF. Reporting by MacDonald ...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has released data suggesting that people in their 70s today have the same cognitive and physical abilities as those in their 50s did in 2000. A 70-year-old in ...

Pakistan will be required to give an assurance that its balance of payments deficit is fully financed for the fiscal year ending in June to unlock the next tranche of IMF funding, the fund's ...

According to central bank sources, the addition of $350 million from the World Bank on 24 June had initially pushed reserves to $22.32 billion. Since then, over $1.30 billion in IMF loan disbursements ...

The IMF suspended Senegal’s $1.8 billion program in October after an audit ordered by President Bassirou Diomaye Faye following his election last year found the previous administration ...

MANILA, Philippines - The Philippines posted a balance of payments (BOP) deficit for the third straight month in May, with ...

StatiSense, a data company, also confirmed on its X handle that Nigeria was no longer listed on the list of countries indebted to IMF, revealed that as at July 28, 2023, Nigeria owed the fund $1. ...

KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) -Pakistan will be required to give an assurance that its balance of payments deficit is fully financed for the fiscal year ending in June to unlock the next tranche of ...

The most recent data from the Debt Management Office shows that Nigeria last year spent $4.66 billion to service its foreign debt, of which $1.63 billion was to the IMF. REUTERS ...

KARACHI, Pakistan, March 6 (Reuters) - Pakistan will be required to give an assurance that its balance of payments deficit is fully financed for the fiscal year ending in June to unlock the next ...