WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The rise in global oil prices is "fundamental in nature" and point to demand growth, a senior International Monetary Fund said on

Strict conditions on international loans have been blamed for thousands of extra tuberculosis deaths in eastern Europe, and former Soviet republics.

By Finfacts Team The US dollar is now closest to its medium-term equilibrium value in a decade and has depreciated by about 25 percent in real effective

The rapid spread of tuberculosis in eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union has been fuelled by the economic policies of the International Monetary Fund

A new study has found that countries in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union that accepted International Monetary Fund loans in the 1990s had an