World Bank

Africa’s economies will lose momentum as the effects of the global credit crisis work through the international system – but the damage will be less severe than in...

The International Monetary Fund’s latest World Economic Outlook downgrades global growth to 3.7% real GDP growth in 2008, while Africa is forecast to grow at 6.5%, pulled up...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The campaign to unseat World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz dominated the Spring Meeting of the Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) on 14-15 April, bitterly dividing the shareholders...

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...

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...