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Foreign ministers confident of agreement to use bank assets as security for Ukraine reconstruction loan

Report shows country has slid into a protracted financial crisis, with Syrian refugee population hit particularly hard.

IMF evaluates Lebanon's reform measures as insufficient for economic recovery, urges comprehensive changes to address deep-rooted challenges.

The World Bank says poverty in Lebanon has tripled over the course of a decade during which the small Mediterranean country slid into a protracted financial crisis

Economies decide elections but with growth tentative, inflation sticky, and tax cuts unlikely, why would the PM wait

An exhaustive list of major data breaches in 2024 so far.

Body says £30bn fiscal gap cannot be filled by higher growth or extra borrowing. So how will No 11 ease pressure on public finances?

Higher-than expected UK inflation figures disappointed the City today, with shares falling as the 2.3% Consumer Price Index reading dashed hopes of a June interest rate cut.

It doesn't seem fair. When the economy is tanking, the government gets the blame. When it recovers, voters tend to give short shrift. Just ask John Major, who couldn't even convince one in three Britons to support the Conservatives in 1997 despite overseeing 22 consecutive quarters of GDP growth and…

The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday said the Bank of England should be mindful over when to start cutting interest rates or risk harming an economy recently out of recession.

The IMF raised the prospect of summer cuts to interest rates by the Bank of England, and of a fall from 5.25 per cent to 4.5 per cent in 2024