Vol 42 No 20 | WORLD BANKINTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND The other war 12th October 2001 Casualties in Africa's economic battles are outstripping those in the military campaigns in Asia and the Middle East Watching Africa's halting economic progress amid war and recession, World Bank officials are launching an emergency drive for aid. Despite a decade of economic reform and debt reli...
Vol 42 No 20 | WORLD BANKINTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND Fighting for Farmers 12th October 2001 More African countries are to test out a World Bank-backed commodity insurance scheme as prices for coffee, cocoa and cotton hit new lows on the terminal markets in Europe and Amer...
Vol 41 No 19 | WORLD BANKINTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND Economic battlefield 29th September 2000 Africans have won the moral argument on debt: now they must win a much tougher one - over access to markets in rich countries Two days of violence between demonstrators and police at the annual meeting of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in the Czech capital, Prague, on 26-27 September left ...
Vol 41 No 19 | WORLD BANKINTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND When push comes to shove 29th September 2000 Eventually one government minister's patience snapped with the nit-picking technical debate on mechanisms of debt relief for the world's poorest countries. Canada's Finance Ministe...
Vol 40 No 20 | WORLD BANKINTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND Life after debt 8th October 1999 Agreement on the latest plan to reduce Africa's debt burden should allow policymakers to concentrate on growth and investment Africa moved up the agenda at the 28-30 September annual meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in Washington after the Group of Seven (G-7) industrialised coun...
Vol 40 No 20 | INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUNDWORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION Who's dropping the debt? 8th October 1999 The debt of poor countries has finally become a significant political issue in the West. The latest changes on debt policy have been prompted by non-governmental organisations' rel...
Vol 39 No 21 | WORLD BANKINTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND Devastating debts 23rd October 1998 Arguments among rich countries are slowing progress on cutting Africa's debts Africa’s hopes for more debt relief are caught between rich countries squabbling over who is to pay for the debt cuts and an increasingly militant international campaign to write o...
Vol 39 No 20 | WORLD BANKINTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND Revised downwards 9th October 1998 The International Monetary Fund’s World Economic Outlook projects African gross domestic product growth at 3.7 per cent this year, compared to its earlier forecast of 4.8 per cent....
Vol 38 No 20 | WORLD BANKINTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND Asian tigers, African lions 10th October 1997 African finance ministers are looking more carefully at Asia's economic models, mired in currency and environmental crises African finance ministers making the pilgrimage to Hong Kong for the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank (23-25 September) were treated to a bizar...
Vol 37 No 20 | INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUNDWORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION Corruption cancer 4th October 1996 The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have started to push a more robustly political agenda, with strong attacks on corruption, dictatorship, human rights abuses and h...
