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  • Vol 49 No 21
  • 17/10/2008

Africa and the credit crash

Africa’s economies growing faster on average than all other regions, except Asia, but how will they fare when the global slowdown bites?

  • Vol 49 No 9
  • 25/04/2008

Reforms, but not radical

Africa’s economic growth will continue to outstrip the world’s average economic growth despite the effects of the slowdown in Western economies, according to the IMF

  • Vol 49 No 9
  • 25/04/2008

Crisis brings opportunity

As Africa is a net grain importer, its people face huge problems from current world food price inflation. African smallholders will suffer if they are net food buyers whereas net food exporters’ profits will rise in tandem with higher global prices. Year...

  • Vol 48 No 22
  • 02/11/2007

New chiefs now, new policies later

For Africa, the Annual Meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund seem to resemble the shareholders’ meeting of a smallish public company bravely struggling back from the brink of insolvency. As each year’s corporate re...

  • Vol 48 No 22
  • 02/11/2007

Fund furore and banking bailout

Against the advice of their own senior staff, the Boards of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank are blocking the restoration of voting rights to Zimbabwe, apparently at the prompting of the British and United States’ directors. T...

  • Vol 47 No 22
  • 03/11/2006

Upbeat Statisticians

The world economy may be slowing, interest rates rising, commodity prices falling and political risks increasing but the International Monetary Fund's World Economic Outlook for 2007 predicts that Africa will continue to show its strongest sustained gr...

  • Vol 47 No 19
  • 22/09/2006

Crying Wolfowitz

Critics of the Bank's new corruption policy say it will cut aid to Africa and punish the poor

  • Vol 45 No 20
  • 08/10/2004

Millennial crisis

Rich countries cannot agree on policies to boost African economies

  • Vol 44 No 20
  • 10/10/2003

Missing the goals

Rich countries are reneging on promises to finance education for the poorest children

  • Vol 44 No 20
  • 10/10/2003

Going Dutch

The generous Netherlands' foreign aid programme is being overhauled to concentrate on a reduced list of 36 countries, with defined priorities. African countries will get just over a quarter of the total, fixed by cross-party agreement at 0.8 per cent of D...

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