# international-monetary-fund - Wednesday 7 April, 2021
# Wealth Tax
# Wealth Tax
The IMF has also backed calls for a global minimum rate of corporation tax.
# international-monetary-fund - Tuesday 21 April, 2020
# Oil And Trouble
# Oil And Trouble
The price has been plummeting thanks to an unprecedented decline in demand.
# international-monetary-fund - Tuesday 14 April, 2020
# Coronavirus
# Coronavirus
The debt payments of the countries, which are primarily in Africa, will be cancelled for at least six months.
# international-monetary-fund - Monday 20 July, 2015
# Open For Business
# Open For Business
Greeks will be able to withdraw up to €420 at once per week.
# international-monetary-fund - Friday 17 April, 2015
# Rodrigo Rato
# Rodrigo Rato
Rodrigo Rato has already been charged in two graft cases.
# international-monetary-fund - Monday 19 January, 2015
# The Good Boy
# The Good Boy
International Monetary Fund head Christine Lagarde says “a debt is a debt and it is a contract”.
# international-monetary-fund - Friday 28 November, 2014
# Debt And Taxes
# Debt And Taxes
Michael Noonan says it’s here for the “foreseeable future”.
# international-monetary-fund - Friday 12 September, 2014
# This Charming Man
# This Charming Man
The Finance Minister has been in Milan urging EU colleagues to support his push for early repayment of IMF loans.
# international-monetary-fund - Wednesday 25 June, 2014
# Tax Havens
# Tax Havens
Corporate tax avoidance is bad for the global economy, paper reports.
# international-monetary-fund - Wednesday 18 June, 2014
# Seeya
# Seeya
“I met him to say goodbye to him, he’s leaving next week,” Brendan Howlin said today.
# international-monetary-fund - Thursday 27 March, 2014
# Cash Strapped
# Cash Strapped
The fund of up to €13 billion will avert bankruptcy amid Ukraine’s escalating standoff with Russia.
# international-monetary-fund - Wednesday 19 March, 2014
# IMF
# IMF
Meanwhile, IMF chief Christine Lagarde denied any wrongdoing as she was questioned for the third time by French prosecutors in a corruption case.
# international-monetary-fund - Thursday 23 January, 2014
# Spain
# Spain
The IMF has warned that the country faces five more years with high unemployment unless it enacts more reforms, including major wage cuts.
# international-monetary-fund - Friday 10 January, 2014
# Central Bank
# Central Bank
Honohan said, now that we have exited the programme, “the rest is up to us”.
# international-monetary-fund - Friday 22 November, 2013
# Credit Line
# Credit Line
A report published by the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council today has warned that the changes in Budget 2014 have removed our “margin of safety”.
# international-monetary-fund - Thursday 7 November, 2013
# Bailout Exit
# Bailout Exit
Ireland remains on track to exit the bailout following the final review, but the IMF says it has no immediate plans to withdraw its officials from Dublin.
# international-monetary-fund - Monday 21 October, 2013
# Opinion
# Opinion
The world breathed a collective sigh of relief when an eleventh hour deal ended the US government shutdown – but it only fully funds the government until January, writes Larry Donnelly.
# international-monetary-fund - Friday 13 September, 2013
# Budget 2014
# Budget 2014
The IMF’s Gerry Rice wants Ireland to keep pace with cuts but did not rule out a reduction to deal with the “drag on growth”.
# international-monetary-fund - Friday 21 June, 2013
# Water Charges
# Water Charges
The EU and IMF have agreed to a request from the Irish authorities to delay the first bills from early 2014 to early 2015.
# international-monetary-fund - Tuesday 18 June, 2013
# G8
# G8
The Taoiseach is among the world’s most powerful leaders in Fermanagh again today.
# international-monetary-fund - Monday 17 June, 2013
# Iceland
# Iceland
Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson says he will ignore the IMF’s criticism of his government’s plans to reduce household debt following the country’s economic collapse.
# international-monetary-fund - Saturday 8 June, 2013
# Opinion
# Opinion
Politicians are too busy trying to point-score with the electorate on social issue to address the real danger to our way of life – our tanking economy. A new party, focused on economic policy, is vital for Ireland, writes Aaron McKenna
# international-monetary-fund - Wednesday 24 April, 2013
# Water Charges
# Water Charges
Michael Noonan and Brendan Howlin want Troika approval to start charging from October 2014, with the first bills in 2015.
# international-monetary-fund - Tuesday 23 April, 2013
# Troika
# Troika
Officials from the EU, IMF and ECB arrive in Dublin today to conduct their tenth review of Ireland’s bailout programme.
# international-monetary-fund - Saturday 23 March, 2013
# Bailout
# Bailout
The approval of nearly €1 billion in new lending means the IMF has handed over about 89 per cent of the total loan.
# international-monetary-fund - Friday 22 March, 2013
# Cyprus
# Cyprus
MPs voted in favour of a national solidarity fund meaning the nationalisation of public and private sector pensions and of capital controls to prevent a run on banks.
# international-monetary-fund - Friday 8 March, 2013
# Christine Lagarde
# Christine Lagarde
Christine Lagarde says the IMF has an “open mind” about allowing Ireland to defer its repayments if it helps end the bailout.
# Partners
# Partners
Lagarde will mark International Women’s Day by hosting a lunch in Dublin.
# international-monetary-fund - Thursday 14 February, 2013
# international-monetary-fund - Saturday 2 February, 2013
# Latvia
# Latvia
The country, which had previously borrowed €7.5 billion in bailout funds, intends to send a formal request to the European Union this month.
# international-monetary-fund - Sunday 13 January, 2013
# Euroleaks
# Euroleaks
Yet another batch of draft documents has made its way out via the Bundestag. Here’s the story of how it happens.
# international-monetary-fund - Saturday 12 January, 2013
# Euroleaks
# Euroleaks
A leaked European Commission report raises questions over Brendan Howlin’s plans to further downsize the public sector.
# international-monetary-fund - Friday 11 January, 2013
# Euroleaks
# Euroleaks
In a leaked document, the Troika suggests a number of radical measures to address the health service overspend including hiring specialists from abroad, cutting doctors’ pay and making savings on the cost of drugs.
# international-monetary-fund - Tuesday 18 December, 2012
# Bailout
# Bailout
The Washington-based fund affirms its stance that additional budgets during the year should be avoided.
# international-monetary-fund - Wednesday 28 November, 2012
# DSK
# DSK
A French appeals court will delay a decision on whether to drop pimping charges against the former IMF chief until December.
# international-monetary-fund - Tuesday 13 November, 2012
# Greece
# Greece
IMF chief Christine Lagarde visibly disagreed with Eurogroup chief Jean-Claude Juncker at a press confernece last night.
# international-monetary-fund - Sunday 28 October, 2012
# Cyprus
# Cyprus
The finance minister of Cyprus says the last few difference on a Troika bailout are “bridgeable”.
# international-monetary-fund - Thursday 11 October, 2012
# Anti-IMF
# Anti-IMF
The Hungarian government has attacked the IMF with a defiant newspaper advertising campaign.
# international-monetary-fund - Wednesday 10 October, 2012
# DSK
# DSK
The former head of the International Monetary Fund says that he is the subject of a “media assault that some days resembles a manhunt” amid allegations of sexual assault and pimping.
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