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International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva was effusive about Ethiopia's ‘impressive economic performance' following a two-day visit to Addis Ababa...
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IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva's acknowledgement that Egypt is losing ‘70%' of Suez Canal revenues and hosting millions fleeing the conflict illustrates the blow to a regionally important economy perceived to be making progress on its IMF-backed reforms...
United States Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has played down the prospects of the BRICS payment system flying any time soon but IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva was more circumspect at last week's autumn meetings of the Fund and World Bank saying that she wanted additional information about the proposed payments system before taking a position...
Fielding questions when presenting her Global Policy Agenda IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva diplomatically suggested that a Kazan-mooted BRICS alternative to the SWIFT international payments system cannot be assessed until ‘more details' emerge and that member countries forming ‘different groupings' still back the IMF...
‘This is a landmark moment for Ethiopia ' said IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva...
IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva described the March bondholder agreement as a ‘significant step forward' satisfying both IMF programme parameters and the ‘comparability of treatment' concerns of Zambia's official creditors including China and the Paris Club...
At the International Monetary Fund and World Bank spring meetings In Washington DC on 19 April the Fund's International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC) – comprising IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva finance ministers and central bank governors – commended Africa's upcoming receipt of a third seat on the 24-member IMF Executive Board in November...
According to IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva that independence is critical as pressure grows for central banks to cut policy interest rates...
The meetings which took place in Marrakech from 9-15 October concluded with the recommendation by the International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC) – IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva finance ministers and central bank governors – that Africa be granted a third seat on the 24-member Executive Board that signs off IMF financing accords...
He also took the opportunity of being in Paris to meet Kristalina Georgieva managing director of the IMF to plead for more assistance on top of the $50 million the fund gave in emergency food aid...