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- Vol 51 No 10
- 14/05/2010
Books not bribes
The World Bank is looking for new printers following its decision to bar publishers Macmillan from all Bank contracts for six years. This follows the admission by a Macmillan subsidiary known as Macmillan Education that it had unsuccessfully tried to win ...
- Vol 50 No 21
- 23/10/2009
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
- 23/10/2009
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 20
- 08/10/2009
Conditional love
World Bank President Robert Zoellick is 'confused if not frustrated', according to his officials, by threats from Britain's Minister for International Development, Douglas Alexander, to block fresh capital-raising attempts by the Bank unless it cuts b...
- Vol 50 No 9
- 01/05/2009
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
- 01/05/2009
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 Pre...
- Vol 50 No 8
- 17/04/2009
Integrity in question
Claims that the World Bank’s Vice-President for Integrity and former head of South Africa’s Scorpions anti-corruption unit, Leonard McCarthy, used his position to pursue political vendettas against African National Congress President Jacob Zuma are, we he...
- 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...
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