International Monetary Fund

Bosnia's economy is expected to shrink this year by 3.5 percent and then grow by 0.5 percent in 2010, an IMF official said on Friday, revising an earlier forecast for a 3 percent contraction in 2009. "The decline in GDP will be contained,...

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The International Monetary Fund sees Poland's economy growing by two to three percent next year, the Fund's regional representative said on Friday. "It is obvious that Poland needs to reduce the growth in its public debt," Mark Allen also...

In this article: Jacek Rostowski, Poland, and Reuters

...their subsidiaries at a meeting with the IMF and the European Commission in Brussels, the IMF said. A statement published on the International Monetary Fund's website late on Thursday, said the six EU-based banks were Bayerische...

In this article: Hungary, Intesa Sanpaolo, EU, and KBC Group

...expects the dollar to be the leading reserve currency for many years or decades," Atkinson said at an IMF media briefing. She said the IMF routinely looks at what is happening in the international monetary system, but was not launching any...

In this article: Dominique Strauss-Kahn, U.S., Washington, China, and Reuters

...Tuesday that Beijing should let its currency rise as a stronger yuan would help China's development and ease global imbalances. IMF managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn's comments came as U.S. President Barack Obama was visiting...

In this article: Beijing, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, China, U.S., Barack Obama, and Washington

* IMF chief sees basket currency eventually displacing dollar * Frets politicians may lose appetite for monetary reform * Urges Beijing to let yuan rise "the sooner the better" (Adds Chinese comment on yuan policy) By Alan Wheatley and...

In this article: Dominique Strauss-Kahn, China, Barack Obama, and Hu Jintao

...the world can no longer rely, as it has done since the end of the gold standard, on a currency issued by a single country, the head of the IMF said on Tuesday. Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the managing director of the International Monetary...

In this article: Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Barack Obama, China, Hu Jintao, United States, and London

...help ease global imbalances, the head of the International Monetary Fund said on Monday. The comments by Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the IMF's managing director, add to a drumbeat of demands that China scrap its currency's peg to the dollar,...

In this article: Dominique Strauss-Kahn, China, United States, Corporate governance, Global recession, Unemployment, and Tsinghua University

...security system to building more roads to its underserved interior, but its reluctance to move on the yuan remains a thorny issue. IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn said on Monday that exchange rate appreciation is part of...

In this article: China, Beijing, Barack Obama, People's Bank of China, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, and United States

...to increase domestic consumption and help ease global imbalances, the head of the International Monetary Fund said on Monday. IMF managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn said the countries at the heart of global imbalances needed to...

In this article: Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Beijing, United States, Corporate governance, Unemployment, Barack Obama, and Asia