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  • Vol 51 No 21
  •  22nd October 2010

As power shifts eastwards, Africa boosts its stake

The new seat for Africa on the World Bank's board is a step forward - gaining more clout at the IMF is the next challenge

  • Vol 51 No 21
  •  22nd October 2010

Caught in the currency battles

The main protagonists in the current currency skirmishes are the United States and China but developing economies are caught in the crossfire as governments talk of competitive devaluation and more controls on capital. A bid for a multilateral deal on cur...

  • Vol 50 No 21
  •  23rd October 2009

A year after the crash

Facing stubbornly high food prices, rising joblessness and investment cutbacks, Africa is lagging behind the economic recovery in Asia

  • Vol 50 No 21
  •  23rd October 2009

The great World Bank capital chase

This year, the World Bank group lent a record US$59 billion, a 54% increase over last year. In Africa, the Bank increased its new commitments by 45% over 2008, although in Latin America it increased new commitments by a staggering 201% and by 124% in Euro...

  • Vol 50 No 9
  •  1st May 2009

Harder cash but warmer words

As befits an institution that has just been voted a trillion dollar boost to its capital resources, the International Monetary Fund busily dispensed loans and policy advice at its spring meeting on 24-25 April in Washington.

  • Vol 50 No 9
  •  1st May 2009

After the G-20, the money-go-around

No one agrees about how much the global financial crisis is costing Africa, but all the international financial institutions agree that the continent needs its own fiscal stimulus package if it is to stave off disaster. The African Development Bank Presid...

  • Vol 49 No 21
  •  17th October 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
  •  25th April 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
  •  25th April 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
  •  2nd November 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 resul...

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