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IMF staff recommends introducing the Qualified Workers Program which provides seasonal visas for workers. Streamlining the administrative process for obtaining employment and a visa was a significant point made by the IMF directors in the 2021 Article IV Consultation report.
The 2021 article IV consultation for Sri Lanka was published in March 2022. The consultation warned of a rising current account deficit, referring to Sri Lanka's foreign exchange reserve levels as "critically low".
One benefit of IMF membership is countries are entitled to technical assistance in banking, fiscal affairs and exchange matters, and one way they help is through country surveillance and Article IV consultations. During these consultations a team of IMF economics visit countries with IMF membership and assess economic and financial developments ...
An agreement was reached to hold Article IV consultations in November 2017. [7] Azerbaijan was included in a 2017 IMF outlook report for the Middle East where the IMF believes economic conditions are gradually improving, in part due to a preferable environment emerging in the global community. Despite this, progress will be hampered due to a ...
On 27 July 2016, the Executive Board of the IMF analysed the progress of Ireland's economy in the Article IV consultation, the fifth post-programme monitoring discussion with Ireland since the bailout. The Article IV report stated that the rebound of the Irish economy was exceptional.
On August 9, 2019, the IMF issued the 2019 Article IV Consultation for the PRC, in which it determined that the value of Renminbi in 2018 was "broadly in line with fundamentals and desirable policies," therefore essentially disputed the accusation raised by the U.S. during the trade conflict against China.
The International Monetary Fund, the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis [12] and other sources, such as the Article IV Consultation Reports, [13] [note 2] state that, at the end of 2014, the "general government gross debt"-to-GDP ratio for China was 41.54 percent. [14]
A few months later, in September 2016, Silva and members of his government met with the IMF to discuss the 2016 Article IV consultation. [10] Silva was reappointed to the leadership of the Movement for Democracy (MpD), with 99 percent of the votes cast, in February 2020.