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IMF Kristalina Georgieva press conference - Washington

International Monetary Fund headquarters during IMF/World Bank Annual Meetings in Washington on October 17, 2025. Photo by Yuri Gripas/ABACAPRESS.COM

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IMF Kristalina Georgieva press conference - Washington

International Monetary Fund headquarters during IMF/World Bank Annual Meetings in Washington on October 17, 2025. Photo by Yuri Gripas/ABACAPRESS.COM

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U.S.-WASHINGTON, D.C.-IMF-GLOBAL GROWTH FORECAST-UPGRADE

(240416) -- WASHINGTON, D.C., April 16, 2024 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on April 16, 2024 shows the International Monetary Fund headquarters in Washington, D.C., the United States. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Tuesday upgraded its forecast of global growth in 2024 to 3.2 percent, 0.1 percentage points higher than its projection in January, according to its newly released World Economic Outlook (WEO) report. (Xinhua/Liu Jie)

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U.S.-WASHINGTON, D.C.-IMF-GLOBAL GROWTH FORECAST-UPGRADE

(240416) -- WASHINGTON, D.C., April 16, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Pedestrians walk past the International Monetary Fund headquarters in Washington, D.C., the United States, April 16, 2024. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Tuesday upgraded its forecast of global growth in 2024 to 3.2 percent, 0.1 percentage points higher than its projection in January, according to its newly released World Economic Outlook (WEO) report. (Xinhua/Liu Jie)

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Zelensky Visits IMF HQs - Washington

Handout photo shows Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and International Monetary Fund (IMF) Director Kristalina Georgieva hold a joint press conference following talks at IMF headquarters in Washington, DC, USA on December 11, 2023. Photo by Ukrainian Presidency via ABACAPRESS.COM

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Zelensky Visits IMF HQs - Washington

Handout photo shows Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and International Monetary Fund (IMF) Director Kristalina Georgieva pose for pictures at IMF headquarters in Washington, DC, USA on December 11, 2023. Photo by Ukrainian Presidency via ABACAPRESS.COM

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Zelensky Visits IMF HQs - Washington

Handout photo shows Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky shakes hands with International Monetary Fund (IMF) Director Kristalina Georgieva following talks at IMF headquarters in Washington, DC, USA on December 11, 2023. Photo by Ukrainian Presidency via ABACAPRESS.COM

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Zelensky Visits IMF HQs - Washington

Handout photo shows Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky shakes hands with International Monetary Fund (IMF) Director Kristalina Georgieva following talks at IMF headquarters in Washington, DC, USA on December 11, 2023. Photo by Ukrainian Presidency via ABACAPRESS.COM

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IMF Raises Expectations for China's Economic Growth

YANTAI, CHINA - NOVEMBER 19, 2023 - STATE POWER INVESTMENT Nuclear Headquarters Base project construction offshore equipment construction, November 19, 2023, Yantai, Shandong province, China.

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IMF Raises Expectations for China's Economic Growth

YANTAI, CHINA - NOVEMBER 19, 2023 - STATE POWER INVESTMENT Nuclear Headquarters Base project construction offshore equipment construction, November 19, 2023, Yantai, Shandong province, China.

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IMF Raises Expectations for China's Economic Growth

YANTAI, CHINA - NOVEMBER 19, 2023 - STATE POWER INVESTMENT Nuclear Headquarters Base project construction offshore equipment construction, November 19, 2023, Yantai, Shandong province, China.

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IMF improves economic forecast for Spain

STORY: IMF improves economic forecast for Spain DATELINE: April 13, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:33 LOCATION: Madrid CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of IMF meeting 2. various of IMF's projection 3. various of Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez 4. various of EAE Business School headquarters in Madrid 5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish): SARA HERRERO, Academic Director for Business and Talent, EAE Business School 6. various of Euro bills 7. various of IMF economic previsions for Spain and other countries STORYLINE: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has improved its economic forecast for Spain, saying the country's GDP will grow by 1.5 percent in 2023 and by 2 percent in 2024. It means that Spain is expected to be the country with the biggest growth in the Eurozone, with its economy expanding considerably more than France and Italy, which are expected to see growth of 0.7 percent, while Germany is predicted to go into recession, with negative growth of 0.1 percent. Spain is also expected to outperform other major global economie

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IMF projects China's economy to grow 5.2 pct in 2023, "key contributor" to global growth

STORY: IMF projects China's economy to grow 5.2 pct in 2023, "key contributor" to global growth DATELINE: April 12, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:11 LOCATION: Washington, D.C. CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the press conference for the World Economic Outlook 2. SOUNDBITE (English): PIERRE-OLIVIER GOURINCHAS, Director of the Research Department of the IMF 3. various of attendees at the press conference 4. various of IMF headquarters during spring meetings STORYLINE: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) projected that China's economy will grow 5.2 percent in 2023 and 4.5 percent in 2024. Director of the Research Department of the IMF, Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas told a press briefing Tuesday on the latest World Economic Outlook (WEO) report. SOUNDBITE (English): PIERRE-OLIVIER GOURINCHAS, Director of the Research Department of the IMF "So on China, we have of course, this is one of the bright news for 2023. The rapid reopening of the economy is leading to a strong rebound. So we're projecting 5.2% growth in

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China, India "two exceptions" to global slowdown this year: World Bank chief

STORY: China, India "two exceptions" to global slowdown this year: World Bank chief DATELINE: April 12, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:06 LOCATION: Washington D.C. CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of World Bank Group President David Malpass in conversation with IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva 2. various of IMF headquarters during spring meetings STORYLINE: China and India are "two exceptions to the slowdown" that the global economy is expected to experience this year, World Bank Group President David Malpass has said. Malpass made the remarks in a media call ahead of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Spring Meetings week, according to a press release posted at the worldbank.org on Monday. "Global growth is expected to be weak this year, slowing to 2 percent from 3.1 percent in 2022. For the U.S., we're expecting a slowdown to 1.2 percent from 2.1 percent in 2022," said Malpass. "Several factors are weighing on the second half outlook: Oil prices have jumped back above 80 U.S. dollars a

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U.S.-WASHINGTON D.C.-IMF-RST

(230411) -- WASHINGTON D.C., April 11, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Pedestrians walk past the International Monetary Fund headquarters in Washington, D.C., the United States, April 10, 2023. Forty-four countries have expressed interest in joining the International Monetary Fund (IMF)'s 40 billion-U.S.-dollar Resilience and Sustainability Trust (RST), said IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva on Monday. The facility created a year ago aims to increase the resilience of low-income and vulnerable middle-income countries by providing them with financial support and promoting sustainable economic policies in response to systemic risks such as climate change. (Xinhua/Liu Jie)

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U.S.-WASHINGTON D.C.-IMF-RST

(230411) -- WASHINGTON D.C., April 11, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Pedestrians walk past the International Monetary Fund headquarters in Washington, D.C., the United States, April 10, 2023. Forty-four countries have expressed interest in joining the International Monetary Fund (IMF)'s 40 billion-U.S.-dollar Resilience and Sustainability Trust (RST), said IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva on Monday. The facility created a year ago aims to increase the resilience of low-income and vulnerable middle-income countries by providing them with financial support and promoting sustainable economic policies in response to systemic risks such as climate change. (Xinhua/Liu Jie)

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44 countries interested in IMF's program for tackling climate change: IMF chief

STORY: 44 countries interested in IMF's program for tackling climate change: IMF chief DATELINE: April 11, 2023 LENGTH: 00:03:24 LOCATION: Washington, D.C. CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva making opening remarks 2. various of Li Bo, IMF's Deputy Managing Director, speaking 3. various of Jin Liqun, President of Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, speaking 4. various of IMF headquarters STORYLINE: Forty-four countries have expressed interest in joining the International Monetary Fund (IMF)'s 40 billion-U.S.-dollar Resilience and Sustainability Trust (RST), said IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva on Monday. The facility created a year ago aims to increase the resilience of low-income and vulnerable middle-income countries by providing them with financial support and promoting sustainable economic policies in response to systemic risks such as climate change. The strong demand for the RST program underscores the urgent need for global cooperation

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Egypt launches initiative to support industry, agriculture with loans

STORY: Egypt launches initiative to support industry, agriculture with loans DATELINE: Feb. 19, 2023 LENGTH: 00:00:50 LOCATION: Cairo CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the headquarters of Finance Ministry in Cairo 2. various of Egypt's Finance Minister Mohamed Maait speaking 3. various of banknotes counting STORYLINE: Egypt's Finance Ministry announced on Saturday the details of the new initiative that aims to support the productive sectors by allowing 150 billion Egyptian pounds (about 4.9 billion U.S. dollars) in soft loans available at 11 percent interest rate for agricultural and industrial projects. The initiative came after the announcement made by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) last month outlining Egypt's commitments under a fresh 3-billion-USD loan deal approved in December. The ministry stressed that the state's public treasury bears 10 billion Egyptian pounds annually. According to Mohamed Maait, Egypt's Finance Minister, 140 billion Egyptian pounds are allocated to finance wor

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IMF chief optimistic Japanese economy recovering

WASHINGTON, United States - International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde speaks in an interview with Kyodo News at the IMF's headquarters in Washington on Sept. 4, 2014, ahead of her arrival in Japan on Sept. 11. Lagarde will attend the World Assembly for Women in Tokyo and meet with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

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IMF chief Lagarde

WASHINGTON, United States - International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde holds a poster at the IMF headquarters in Washington on Oct. 2, 2012, promoting the IMF annual meeting to be held in Tokyo from Oct. 9 to 14.

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IMF chief Lagarde

WASHINGTON, United States - International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde speaks at a press conference at the IMF headquarters in Washington on Oct. 2, 2012. Lagarde prodded Japan and China to ease tensions over their territorial dispute, saying the shaky world economy needs the two Asian economic giants to support sustainable growth.

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Major manufacturers to implement automatic annual pay hikes

TOKYO, Japan - Koichiro Nishihara, president of the International Metalworkers Federation-Japan Council of Metalworkers Union (IMF-JC), speaks at a news conference at IMF-JC headquarters in Tokyo on March 17, 2010, after management of major Japanese manufacturers replied to unions' demand for pay hikes. Annual spring labor-management wage bargaining reached a peak the same day in Japan.

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WTO, IMF, World Bank chiefs urge G-8 to boost new trade round

GENEVA, Switzerland - Horst Koehler (R), managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Supachai Panitchpakdi (C), director general of the World Trade Organization, and World Bank President James Wolfensohn hold a joint press conference at the WTO headquarters in Geneva on May 13.

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IMF employees get a dose of their own medicine

WASHINGTON, United States - Oxfam program assistant Jamie Baker displays on Sept. 24 one of the 1,000 boxes of ''medicine'' distributed outside the International Monetary Fund headquarters in Washington.

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IMF downgrades 2023 global growth forecast to 2.7 pct

STORY: IMF downgrades 2023 global growth forecast to 2.7 pct DATELINE: Oct. 12, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:09 LOCATION: Washington D.C. CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of IMF press conference 2. SOUNDBITE (English): PIERRE-OLIVIER GOURINCHAS, Chief Economist and Director of Research Department, IMF 3. exterior of the IMF headquarters in Washington D.C. STORYLINE: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Tuesday projected the global economy to grow by 3.2 percent this year and 2.7 percent in 2023, with a downward 0.2-percentage-point revision for 2023 from the July forecast, according to the latest World Economic Outlook (WEO) report. The global economy is experiencing "a number of turbulent challenges," as inflation is higher than seen in several decades, tightening financial conditions in most regions, the Russia-Ukraine conflict, and the lingering COVID-19 pandemic all weigh heavily on the outlook, the report said. SOUNDBITE (English): PIERRE-OLIVIER GOURINCHAS, Chief Economist and Director of Res

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IMF cuts 2022 global growth forecast to 3.2 pct, warns of downside risks

STORY: IMF cuts 2022 global growth forecast to 3.2 pct, warns of downside risks DATELINE: July 27, 2022 LENGTH: 00:00:42 LOCATION: Washington D.C. CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the press conference 2. exterior view of the IMF headquarters in Washington D.C. STORYLINE: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Tuesday slashed the global growth forecast for 2022 to 3.2 percent, down by 0.4 percentage point from the April projection, according to its newly released update to the World Economic Outlook (WEO). Several shocks have hit the world economy already weakened by the COVID-19 pandemic, including higher-than-expected inflation worldwide -- especially in the United States and major European economies -- triggering tighter financial conditions, and further negative spillovers from the Ukrainian crisis, the WEO update said. According to the WEO update, global inflation has been revised up due to food and energy prices, and is anticipated to reach 6.6 percent in advanced economies and 9.5 per

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U.S.-WASHINGTON, D.C.-IMF-WEO-GLOBAL GROWTH FORECAST

(220419) -- WASHINGTON, April 19, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Photo taken on April 19, 2022 shows the IMF Headquarters in Washington, D.C., the United States. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Tuesday slashed global growth forecast for 2022 to 3.6 percent amid the Russia-Ukraine conflict, 0.8 percentage points lower than the January projection, according to its newly released World Economic Outlook report. (Photo by Ting Shen/Xinhua)

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U.S.-WASHINGTON, D.C.-IMF-WEO-GLOBAL GROWTH FORECAST

(220419) -- WASHINGTON, April 19, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A pedestrian walks past the IMF Headquarters in Washington, D.C., the United States, on April 19, 2022. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Tuesday slashed global growth forecast for 2022 to 3.6 percent amid the Russia-Ukraine conflict, 0.8 percentage points lower than the January projection, according to its newly released World Economic Outlook report. (Photo by Ting Shen/Xinhua)

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U.S.-WASHINGTON, D.C.-IMF-WEO-GLOBAL GROWTH FORECAST

(220419) -- WASHINGTON, April 19, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Photo taken on April 19, 2022 shows the IMF Headquarters in Washington, D.C., the United States. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Tuesday slashed global growth forecast for 2022 to 3.6 percent amid the Russia-Ukraine conflict, 0.8 percentage points lower than the January projection, according to its newly released World Economic Outlook report. (Photo by Ting Shen/Xinhua)

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WTO, IMF, World Bank chiefs urge G-8 to boost new trade round

GENEVA, Switzerland - Horst Koehler (R), managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Supachai Panitchpakdi (C), director general of the World Trade Organization, and World Bank President James Wolfensohn hold a joint press conference at the WTO headquarters in Geneva on May 13. (Kyodo)

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Japanese politician meets with Lagarde

Christine Lagarde (L), managing director of the International Monetary Fund, shakes hands with Tomomi Inada, a senior official of the Japanese ruling Liberal Democratic Party, at the IMF headquarters in Washington on Sept. 29, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Major manufacturers to implement automatic annual pay hikes

TOKYO, Japan - Koichiro Nishihara, president of the International Metalworkers Federation-Japan Council of Metalworkers Union (IMF-JC), speaks at a news conference at IMF-JC headquarters in Tokyo on March 17, 2010, after management of major Japanese manufacturers replied to unions' demand for pay hikes. Annual spring labor-management wage bargaining reached a peak the same day in Japan. (Kyodo)

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IMF chief Lagarde convicted over payout, won't face jail term

International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde says at the IMF headquarters in Washington on Dec. 19, 2016, that she will stay on in her role after being convicted of negligence by a French court the same day over her handling of a multimillion euro dispute when she was French finance minister. The court did not hand down any sentence in the case, despite the ruling. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Yuan's entry into basket of top currencies "historic milestone:" IMF

International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde attends a press conference at the IMF headquarters in Washington on Sept. 30, 2016. Lagarde hailed the inclusion of the yuan in its elite basket of reserve currencies as a "historic milestone" for China. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo