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President Lai receives credentials from new Paraguay Ambassador Darío Filártiga Ruiz Díaz
TAIWAN, September 12 - Details 2025-09-12 President Lai receives credentials from new Belize Ambassador Katherine Vanessa Meighan On the afternoon of September 12, President Lai Ching-te received the credentials of new Ambassador Extraordinary and...
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President Lai receives credentials from new Belize Ambassador Katherine Vanessa Meighan
TAIWAN, September 12 - Details 2025-09-12 President Lai receives credentials from new Paraguay Ambassador Darío Filártiga Ruiz Díaz On the morning of September 12, President Lai Ching-te received the credentials of new Ambassador Extraordinary and...
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President Lai receives credentials from new Haiti Ambassador Roudy Stanley Penn
TAIWAN, September 9 - Details 2025-09-03 President Lai meets delegation led by Saint Lucia Deputy Prime Minister Ernest Hilaire On the afternoon of September 3, President Lai Ching-te met with a delegation led by Saint Lucia Deputy Prime Minister...
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President Lai meets delegation led by Saint Lucia Deputy Prime Minister Ernest Hilaire
TAIWAN, September 3 - Details 2025-09-02 President Lai meets delegation from University of Tokyo cross-strait relations research group On the afternoon of September 2, President Lai Ching-te met with a delegation from the University of Tokyo’s...
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Tuvalu : 2018 Article IV Consultation – Press Release; Staff Report and Statement by the Executive Director for Tuvalu
Author/Editor: International Monetary Fund. Asia and Pacific Dept Publication Date: July 5, 2018 Electronic Access: Free Full Text. Use the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to view this PDF file Summary: Tuvalu is a fragile micro state. The country’s...
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President Lai meets delegation from Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China
TAIWAN, August 27 - Details 2025-08-28 President Lai attends opening ceremony of 53rd Asian-Pacific Parliamentarians’ Union General Assembly On the morning of August 28, President Lai Ching-te attended the opening ceremony of the 53rd...
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Tuvalu Accepts Article VIII Obligations
November 3, 2016 Tuvalu has accepted the Article VIII obligations to eliminate foreign exchange restrictions. This can help facilitate Tuvalu’s international trade and improve its attractiveness to foreign investors. The government of Tuvalu has...
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Tuvalu: IMF Staff Concludes 2016 Article IV Mission
Press Release No. 16/256 May 31, 2016 End-of-Mission press releases include statements of IMF staff teams that convey preliminary findings after a visit to a country. The views expressed in this statement are those of the IMF staff and do not...
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IMF Executive Board Concludes 2018 Article IV Consultation with Tuvalu
July 5, 2018 On June 22, 2018, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the Article IV consultation[1] with Tuvalu. Tuvalu has maintained macroeconomic stability. Real GDP growth is estimated to have risen to 3.2...
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Call for Applications: UNITAR Women’s Leadership in Disaster Risk Reduction for World Tsunami Awareness Day 2025
The programme is open to motivated people living in or from Pacific Island countries and territories or the Asia-Pacific, who are: An adult of 18 years or older Eager to learn about the leadership skills required for disaster risk reduction...
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Tuvalu: IMF Executive Board Concludes 2014 Article IV Consultation
Press Release No. 14/398 August 28, 2014 On August 25, 2014, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the Article IV consultation1 with Tuvalu. Growth is picking up modestly on a generally stable outlook, and...
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Tuvalu: 2014 Article IV Consultation - Staff Report; Press Release; and Statement by the Executive Director for Tuvalu
Summary: Tuvalu is one of the smallest and most isolated countries in the world. With a population of some 11,000 people living on 26 square kilometers, Tuvalu is more than 3,000 kilometers away from its nearest major external market (New...
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IMF Staff Concludes 2018 Article IV Consultation to Tuvalu
April 24, 2018 End-of-Mission press releases include statements of IMF staff teams that convey preliminary findings after a visit to a country. The views expressed in this statement are those of the IMF staff and do not necessarily represent the...
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IMF Staff Concludes 2017 Staff Visit to Tuvalu
August 1, 2017 Tuvalu’s macroeconomic performance has been favorable on the back of strong fishing license revenue and increased capital expenditure. Real GDP growth in 2016 is estimated at 3 percent, and is projected to rise to 3.2 percent in...
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Tuvalu: Concluding Statement of the IMF Mission from August 28 to September 4, 2013
Describes the preliminary findings of IMF staff at the conclusion of certain missions (official staff visits, in most cases to member countries). Missions are undertaken as part of regular (usually annual) consultations under Article IV of the...
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Tuvalu Joins the IMF's General Data Dissemination System
Press Release No. 13/104 April 4, 2013 Tuvalu joined the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF’s) General Data Dissemination System (GDDS) today, marking a major step forward in the development of its statistical system. To mark the occasion,...
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Tuvalu-- Concluding Statement of the IMF Mission
The mission would like to express its sincere gratitude to our hosts in the Tuvaluan government for their hospitality, their time, and many constructive and open discussions. Tuvalu’s recovery from the global financial crisis is slow, though...
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President Lai meets New Zealand delegation from All-Party Parliamentary Group on Taiwan
TAIWAN, April 17 - Details 2025-04-15 President Lai meets delegation led by Tuvalu Deputy Prime Minister Panapasi Nelesone On the afternoon of April 15, President Lai Ching-te met with a delegation led by Tuvalu Deputy Prime Minister and Minister...
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President Lai pens Bloomberg News article on Taiwan’s response to US reciprocal tariffs
TAIWAN, April 9 - Details 2025-04-08 President Lai receives credentials from new Tuvalu Ambassador Lily Tangisia Faavae On the morning of April 8, President Lai Ching-te received the credentials of new Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary...
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President Lai presides over fourth meeting of Whole-of-Society Defense Resilience Committee
TAIWAN, June 26 - Details 2025-03-18 President Lai meets Commander-in-Chief of US Veterans of Foreign Wars Alfred Lipphardt On the morning of March 18, President Lai Ching-te met with a delegation led by Alfred Lipphardt, commander-in-chief of the...
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