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  • 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 21
  • 19/10/2007

Renaissance woman

Renaissance Capital has a new Chairperson for its advisory committees on Nigeria and Africa. The World Bank has a new Managing Director. And both institutions have secured the services of the same woman: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigeria's former Finance Mi...

  • Vol 48 No 14
  • 06/07/2007

BANK ROBBERY

Norwegian Development Minister Erik Solheim is determined to get the World Bank and International Monetary Fund to take more seriously the damage which corrupt pricing systems and tax havens do to developing economies, especially African ones. Oslo is...

  • Vol 48 No 12
  • 08/06/2007

THE VULCAN HAS LANDED

There is little chance that staff will allow new President Robert Zoellick a honeymoon at the World Bank's lavish H Street headquarters in Washington DC. The ghost of Paul Wolfowitz will cast a long shadow when he hands over on 30 June to Zoellick, an...

  • Vol 48 No 9
  • 27/04/2007

The trials of Wolfowitz

ECONOMY

  • Vol 48 No 9
  • 27/04/2007

Pass the hat around

The key event for the World Bank this year is the 15th replenishment of its soft-loan affiliate, the International Development Association. The IDA provides the bulk of low-interest loans for Bank projects in Africa, South Asia and parts of Central and...

  • 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

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