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This paper provides an update on progress towards the Fund’s FY 2025 Diversity Benchmarks, as of the end of FY 2023. The paper also includes information on action the Fund is taking to promote greater diversity and inclusion through a two-year roadmap of initiatives primarily focused on recruitment, talent development, equity and inclusion and promoting greater leadership accountability and transparency. The paper also covers plans to convene a cross-functional working group to establish the Diversity Benchmarks targets for FY 2030.

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This interim note provides general guidance on the operationalization of the IMF’s Strategy Toward Mainstreaming Gender. It offers a comprehensive overview of how IMF staff can integrate macrocritical gender issues into the IMF’s core areas of surveillance, lending, and capacity development. Key topics include i) identifying and assessing macrocritical gender gaps; ii) the “light touch” and “deep dive” approaches; iii) early insights on integrating gender into IMF-supported programs; iv) capacity development on gender or with a gender lens; v) synergies with other workstreams and vi) the importance of collaboration. It also includes summaries and links to relevant tools, databases, IMF staff reports, and relevant literature.

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This Selected Issues paper investigates the drivers of headline inflation and the degree of exchange rate pass-through (ERPT) in The Gambia over the period 2014–2023. Stylized facts and the limited studies on The Gambia point to the role of both domestic and external drivers for inflation dynamics. The Gambia is indeed a net importer of essential foods and energy. The analysis highlights the decisive long-term roles of global prices of commodities (food, oil and fertilizer), the exchange rate, and the domestic output gap. The short-run dynamics of inflation points to the roles of global food price and the second-round effects of changes in food prices and the output gap. Monetary policy has the potential to tame inflation in the short run provided the monetary policy rate is adjusted rapidly and boldly. Lastly, there is evidence of an asymmetric ERPT to domestic prices, and the size of currency depreciation matters for inflation dynamics.

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Qatar’s state-led, hydrocarbon intensive growth model has delivered rapid growth and substantial improvements in living standards over the past several decades. Guided by the National Vision 2030, an economic transformation is underway toward a more dynamic, diversified, knowledge-based, sustainable, and private sector-led growth model. As Qatar is finalizing its Third National Development Strategy to make the final leap toward Vision 2030, this paper aims to identify key structural reforms needed, quantify their potential impact on the economy, and shed light on the design of a comprehensive reform agenda ahead. The paper finds that labor market reforms could bring substantial benefits, particularly reforms related to increasing the share of skilled foreign workers. Certain reforms to further improve the business environment, such as improving access to finance, could also have large growth impact. A comprehensive, well-integrated, and properly sequenced reform package to exploit complementarities across reforms could boost Qatar’s potential growth significantly.

Choice of Technology --- Climate finance --- Climatic changes --- Economics of Gender --- Education --- Education: General --- Environment --- Environmental Economics --- Environmental Economics: General --- Gender studies --- Gender --- Green finance / sustainable finance --- Human Capital --- Income economics --- Industrial Policy --- Industrialization --- International agencies --- International Agreements and Observance --- International Economics --- International institutions --- International organization --- International Organizations --- Labor Economics Policies --- Labor force participation --- Labor market reforms --- Labor market --- Labor Productivity --- Labor Standards: Labor Force Composition --- Labor --- Labour --- Macroeconomics --- Manpower policy --- Manufacturing and Service Industries --- Monetary economics --- Monetary Policy --- Monetary policy --- Money and Monetary Policy --- Non-labor Discrimination --- Occupational Choice --- Skills --- Technological Change: Government Policy --- Women & girls --- Women --- Women's Studies --- Qatar

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This Selected Issues paper analyzes drivers of core inflation in Austria. Inflation in Austria has declined on falling energy prices, but the pace of its return to the two percent target is uncertain. In order to gain insight into the likely pace of disinflation, this chapter examines key drivers of core inflation from two perspectives. First, it explores how energy prices have affected core inflation by examining differences in inflation trends between core goods and services with a relatively high energy-input content versus those with a relatively low energy-input content. Second, the paper uses a parsimonious econometric model to generate forecasts of core inflation. The paper concludes that there are good reasons to expect core inflation to keep falling as lower energy prices continue to pass through to core prices and as euro-area inflation, a key determinant of Austrian inflation in the econometric model, continues to fall. However, the IMF staff does not project Austrian inflation to reach the two percent target for some time, given inflation’s current elevated level and somewhat sticky services inflation.

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