{"id":82716,"date":"2026-02-07T18:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T17:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/imf-warns-malta-cannot-sustain-further-population-growth\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T18:50:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T17:50:00","slug":"imf-warns-malta-cannot-sustain-further-population-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/imf-warns-malta-cannot-sustain-further-population-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"IMF warns Malta cannot sustain further population growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IMF warns Malta cannot sustain further population growth<br \/>\nThe International Monetary Fund has warned that Malta \u201ccannot sustain further substantial population and labour force growth through immigration.\u201dIn its February country report, the IMF said that without major policy changes and structural reforms, a slowdown in labour force growth would eventually curb the country\u2019s economic potential and limit future growth.\u201cWithout adequate policy and structural&#8230;<br \/>\nRSS Feed Source: Times of Malta <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/article\/imf-warns-malta-cannot-sustain-population-growth.1123764\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IMF warns Malta cannot sustain further population growth<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IMF warns Malta cannot sustain further population growth The International Monetary Fund has warned that Malta \u201ccannot sustain further substantial population and labour force growth through immigration.\u201dIn its February country report, the IMF said that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2139],"tags":[1850],"class_list":["post-82716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malta-news","tag-abatement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82716"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}