Source: International Monetary Fund – IMF (video statements)
Sub-Saharan Africa’s growth remains steady at 4.1% in 2025, but the region faces headwinds from trade tensions, tight borrowing, and aid cuts.
Abebe Aemro Selassie shares three key takeaways from our new Regional Economic Outlook.
Read more: https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/REO/SSA/Issues/2025/10/16/regional-economic-outlook-for-sub-saharan-africa-october-2025?cid=sm-com-yt-AM2025-REOAFREA2025002
Source: International Monetary Fund – IMF (video statements)
How is sub-Saharan Africa navigating global uncertainty and a shifting landscape? Join IMF African Department Director Abebe Aemro Selassie on Thursday, October 16, at 10:30 AM ET for a press briefing on our latest Regional Economic Outlook, with forecasts, analysis, and policy recommendations for the region. https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/REO/SSA/Issues/2025/10/16/regional-economic-outlook-for-sub-saharan-africa-october-2025?cid=sm-com-yt-AM2025-REOAFREA2025002
Source: International Monetary Fund – IMF (video statements)
Despite rising global policy uncertainty, economies in the Middle East and North Africa have demonstrated resilience this year, driven by increased oil production, lower energy prices, strong remittances and tourism inflows, and supportive global financial conditions. Can this resilience be maintained? What risks remain and how can MENA policymakers best navigate them? What new opportunities might emerge for the region in a rapidly shifting global economy?
Join us in person or online for an insightful discussion featuring a distinguished panel of speakers as we explore these critical issues highlighted in the IMF’s forthcoming Regional Economic Outlook Report: Middle East and Central Asia. This event will be moderated by Joumana Bercetche (Anchor, Horizons Middle East and Africa, Bloomberg Television) and is held in partnership with the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC).
Source: International Monetary Fund – IMF (video statements)
Europe stands at a critical juncture. Growth remains sluggish, reforms are lagging, and global uncertainties are reshaping economic prospects. This Governor’s Talk will feature Stephanie Lose, Denmark’s Minister of Economic Affairs and current president for the Council of the Economic and Financial Ministers in the EU, in conversation on Europe’s key challenges and opportunities. Discussion will focus on priorities for strengthening the single market, advancing the Capital Markets and Energy Unions, ensuring efficient use of the EU budget, strengthening Europe’s strategic autonomy, and navigating global headwinds such as shifting trade dynamics and geopolitical tensions. The session will explore how Europe—and Denmark—can foster resilience, competitiveness, and sustainable prosperity.
Source: International Monetary Fund – IMF (video statements)
How vulnerable is the world’s largest financial market to rising uncertainty and structural fragilities? The IMF’s October 2025 Global Financial Stability Report explores mounting risks in the foreign exchange market and their implications for developing economies. Join us on Tuesday, October 7, 2025, at 9:00 a.m. ET for the launch of our latest research, featuring IMF Financial Counsellor Tobias Adrian, Tomohiro Tsuruga, Andrea Deghi, and Harvard Business School’s Dr. Wenxin Du, moderated by the Brookings Institution’s Robin Brooks. Learn more: https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/GFSR/Issues/2025/10/14/global-financial-stability-report-october-2025
Source: International Monetary Fund – IMF (video statements)
Join the launch event on Monday, October 6 at 9:00AM ET for:
– World Economic Outlook Chapter 2: Emerging Market Resilience: Good Luck or Good Policies? https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WEO/Issues/2025/10/14/world-economic-outlook-october-2025?cid=sm-com-yt-AM2025-WEOEA2025002
– Global Financial Stability Report Chapter 3: Global Shocks, Local Markets: The Changing Landscape of Emerging Market Sovereign Debt. https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/GFSR/Issues/2025/10/14/global-financial-stability-report-october-2025?cid=sm-com-yt-AM2025-GFSREA2025002
Source: International Monetary Fund – IMF (video statements)
Source: International Monetary Fund – IMF (video statements)
Source: International Monetary Fund – IMF (video statements)
Productivity is the foundation of prosperity. Technological breakthroughs, globalization, and financial innovation have lifted productivity over the past half century, yet these advances have disrupted pathways to prosperity for the middle-class, and widened income gaps between groups and regions. More recently productivity growth has remained stubbornly weak—slower gains in total factor productivity account for more than half the deceleration in economic growth since the global financial crisis.
Today, further transformations in digital technologies and artificial intelligence hold the promise of another leap in efficiency—but without the right policy frameworks, these advances risk deepening existing divides. This seminar will explore how to ensure that the next wave of innovation translates into broad-based growth where people and regions share in the productivity dividend.
Source: International Monetary Fund – IMF (video statements)
Ongoing trade policy shifts and elevated uncertainties are disrupting the previous rules-based order and reshaping the global economy. While tariff agreements have lowered effective rates from their April 2025 highs, policy uncertainty remains acute. The world’s economies, institutions, and markets are adjusting to a shifting landscape, adding to the already complex tradeoffs and challenges posed by weak medium-term growth prospects, dwindling fiscal space, ongoing structural transformations, and heightened spillover risks.
This seminar will explore how policymakers should recalibrate macroeconomic policies to ensure resilience and rekindle growth as the global economy reshapes. The discussion will begin by exploring the current global economic outlook and the main sources and implications of elevated uncertainty. The seminar will also explore how countries’ economic resilience has evolved and consider how countries can step up actions to withstand future shocks and lift growth prospects including through adjustments to policy frameworks, macroeconomic policy settings, and structural reforms
