Economy
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Found 45 articles.
- Vol 46 No 2
- 21/01/2005
Heading higher
The International Monetary Fund's forecast of average growth of 5.8 per cent for sub-Saharan Africa this year is the region's best out-turn for 30 years. The bigger question is how higher growth will reduce Africa's poverty. The figures include fast-gr...
- Vol 44 No 3
- 07/02/2003
Rebel forces, market forces
Côte d'Ivoire's civil war may have boosted cocoa prices but it has also closed the processing plants
- Vol 43 No 2
- 25/01/2002
Bear markets
The rich world's recession hits Africa's prospects but reform goes slowly on
- Vol 41 No 1
- 07/01/2000
Less debt, more growth
World Bank President Jim Wolfensohn, together with internationalist anti-debt campaigners, will get joint credit if the Bank and the international Monetary Fund's Heavily Indebted Poor Country initiative makes real progress this year. Most creditor cou...
- Vol 40 No 6
- 19/03/1999
Down with tariffs
The Union Economique et Monétaire Ouest-Africaine (UEMOA), the economic and monetary union of the eight West African states of the Franc Zone, is nine months away from a brave experiment in economic integration. From 1 January tariffs, with very few excep...
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