Three IMF economists reported on 9 November 2026 that foreign investment in Latin America and the Caribbean produces weaker export growth than in peer regions. They put 20 per cent on the gap and called it a benchmark, not a forecast. A separate body forecast 20 per cent the day before.
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Guyana measures inflation against a basket chosen after a 2006 household survey. The Bureau of Statistics finished field work on the survey meant to replace it in November 2019. The IMF called for the switch in 2025 and found progress slow.
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The IMF's October 2026 Global Financial Stability Report names sovereign total return swaps as a frontier-economy risk that standard debt statistics cannot fully capture. Reported users are Angola, Colombia, Nigeria and Senegal. Five Caribbean states are absent from the dataset it used.
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The IMF said in July that import-heavy private investment kept Guyana's FX market tight, judged the stabilized regime appropriate and advised deeper markets. The government's nine measures work on documentation and misuse.
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Guyana's commercial banks have told President Irfaan Ali that unmet requests for foreign currency stand at just over US$200 million, part carried forward from earlier months. Former Finance Minister Asgar Ally is helping analyse the demand.
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El Deber and Independent en Español report the IMF agreed a $1.9 billion program for Bolivia to support economic reforms under President Paz.
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