Every Magna Bureau story on IMF: 12 articles, investigations and analysis in one place.
Last updated: October 2026
The International Monetary Fund is the world's lender of last resort — the institution countries call when the money runs out. Headquartered in Washington, its programmes, conditions, and forecasts shape the economic fate of borrowing nations.
Kristalina Georgieva told Youm7 the Suez crisis cost Egypt 70% of canal revenue — and that she will visit within ten days. With growth revised up to 5% and August canal income up 57%, Cairo is negotia
NewsAt the Bangkok annual meetings, the Fund's October outlook credits artificial-intelligence investment with offsetting war and energy shocks — and warns that inflation, debt and a possible AI reckoning
NewsSenegal convenes foreign creditors in a virtual meeting on October 6, with the IMF, to negotiate a debt treatment that deliberately leaves CFA-franc debt untouched.
NewsIMF–World Bank meetings open this week in Bangkok, the first outside Washington in three years, with the eighth month of the US-Israeli war on Iran and its energy shock dominating the agenda.
NewsThe UNDP chief warns that rising energy costs, a record El Niño and multi-decade borrowing highs are pushing developing countries toward pandemic-era distress — just as the IMF and World Bank head to
NewsGlobal carriers are planning trial voyages through Suez in October, canal revenue is up 23% on the year, and Egyptian banks are weighing another $300M loan to the Canal Authority. The world's most imp
NewsChina's central bank published a rare, systematic defense of the yuan just as Europe's trade chief pressed Beijing on a 360.6-billion-euro deficit. The real fight is over who must pay for rebalancing
NewsmBridge, CIPS, UPI, PIX: the parallel settlement rails are already installed. A three-perspective investigation on optionality, not confrontation.
NewsBRICS grew from four members to a broad emerging-power club with its own bank. This explainer asks what the bloc can do, and where it stalls.
NewsThe Wall Street bank expects the central bank to start cutting on Oct 22 and take the policy rate to 35% by year-end — if September CPI lands near 2.2% monthly. Energy prices, up 6%, are the swing ris
NewsOver 116,000 Zimbabweans fled South Africa's anti-migrant violence in 2026. Back home, they are rebuilding with welding machines, duty-free waivers — and almost no capital.
NewsAid to Africa has fallen over 25 percent and women and children are paying: in Kenya, closed clinics, empty contraceptive shelves and rising HIV infections trace back to the US aid collapse.
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