Concerns about growth and investment levels in Africa are deepening due to much slower growth in China, capital flight to western economies and the risks that a wider war in the Mi...

The first IMF and World Bank annual meetings to be held in Africa for 50 years, delivered some gains for the continent against the backdrop of heightened geopolitical tensions in t...

Grand talk about remaking the international system and a second edition of Bretton Woods meeting, which founded the IMF and the World Bank in 1944, has yielded little but promises ...

Conflicting plans to address the developing economy debt crisis will be demanding urgent attention, along with proposals to boost climate finance and for thoroughgoing institutiona...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...