Under the Extended Funding Facility (EFF) $7 billion bailout programme for Pakistan, it was agreed that a progress review would be done every six months.
A recent IMF report offers key insights for India amid an increasingly debt-laden global economy.
The recent IMF report presents a mixed picture of the global economy: the immediate threat of recession has receded, and inflation is gradually stabilising, yet a new alarm has been sounded on the surging levels of global debt.
The level of uncertainty surrounding the global economic outlook is high, the report noted on Tuesday
For India, the October outlook projects a headline inflation figure of 4.4% for FY25 and 4.1% for FY26.
The UN body expects gross domestic product (GDP) growth in FY26 to slow down to 6.5%, same as projected in its April World Economic Outlook (WEO).
India has also adopted another two-pronged approach to promote change: Setting up a fund with the UN for developing countries and working with the BRICS on the New Development Bank.
As the world is in the midst of the ‘Great Election Year’ of 2024, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has sounded the alarm on the perilous tight-rope walk between democratic exercises and fiscal responsibility.
The Maldives is highly vulnerable to climate change risks, with potentially severe economic costs due to floods and rising sea level, the IMF said.
It also upgraded the growth forecast for the India economy by 0.2 percentage points to 6.5 percent for both 2024 and 2025, citing resilient domestic demand.
