Vol 64 No 3 | INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUNDAFRICA Back into the Fund's embrace 25th January 2023 The IMF is at the centre of geopolitical rivalries and calls to reform the international financial system as debt pressures rise The simultaneous but separate visits of IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva and United States Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to Zambia on 23-24 January point to rising conc...
Vol 63 No 21 | WORLD BANKINTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUNDAFRICA Governments pushed close to the edge 20th October 2022 Africa's slowing growth heightens worries on food security, debt service costs, roaring inflation and climate finance The global downturn will hit Africa's economies harder than any other region according to the latest forecast from the International Monetary Fund: average growth in Africa is set ...
Vol 63 No 21 | WORLD BANKINTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUNDAFRICA Mounting calls for global debt plan as payments crunch looms 18th October 2022 G7 finance chiefs press World Bank to step up reform as UN agencies and developing economy officials push creditors toward a new debt relief scheme Fresh plans to restructure debt in 54 developing countries facing a surge of repayment demands were mooted by multiple officials at the IMF and World Bank annual meetings in Washin...
Vol 63 No 16 | INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUNDAFRICA Economic cooperation falters as growth set to fall again 29th July 2022 Hit by the pandemic and war, the most plausible forecasts for the global economy are bad or even worse, says the IMF Two over-arching challenges dominate the global economy: how to cut inflation without triggering recession and cooperating on restructuring debt in emerging and developing economie...
Vol 63 No 15 | INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUNDAFRICA Fund shores up internationalism 21st July 2022 Reacting to diplomatic stalemates at the UN Security Council and the G20, the IMF is becoming the international forum of last resort – on debt, climate finance and the spillo...
Vol 63 No 10 | ECONOMYWORLD BANKINTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUNDAFRICA Alarms sound on debt, inflation and food 12th May 2022 International financial institutions warn that economic dislocation from Moscow's war on Ukraine could trigger social upheaval on the continent Senior officials in the UN and other international agencies have been ratcheting up their analyses of the damage to Africa's economies following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Ahunn...
DISPATCHES Vol 63 No 9 | WORLD BANKINTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND Financial institutions prepare over $500bn of funding as IMF warns of 'crisis on top of a crisis' 20th April 2022 War in Europe, broken supply chains and spiralling food and fuel prices slow post-pandemic recoveries in emerging markets As their spring meetings get under way in Washington DC, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank are putting together financing facilities worth over US$500 billion to h... READ FOR FREE
DISPATCHES Vol 62 No 21 | WORLD BANKINTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND Big questions hang over the leadership of the International Financial Institutions 11th October 2021 Growing worries about the future of the multilateral lenders will haunt this week’s annual meetings in Washington DC The annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank open on 11 October against a backdrop of political rows in both institutions. Those fights, touching on policy... READ FOR FREE
Vol 62 No 20 | WORLD BANKINTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND Fraternal links fraying 7th October 2021 When 16 African finance ministers, including treasury chiefs from Egypt, Ethiopia and Nigeria, signed an open letter praising Kristalina Georgieva's leadership of the International...
Vol 62 No 16 | INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUNDAFRICA Funding boost needed to bridge two-track recovery 27th July 2021 Multilaterals change rules to boost loans to Africa, to startclosing a $425 billion finance gap Africa will be the main beneficiary of a new plan by the International Monetary Fund to boost cheap loans for countries hardest hit by the pandemic in what officials hope will be a...
