Dominating the agenda of the Washington meetings was the economic fall-out from the war in Ukraine despite efforts by IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva to sound alarms over lack of action on the effects of debt and accelerating climate change on developing economies (AC Vol 63 No 15 Fund shores up internationalism)...
IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva has backed the idea of rich economies transferring some of their SDRs to Multilateral Development Banks but the plan would need consensus among the G7 the group of the seven biggest economies...
Finance Minister Ahmed Shide discussed debt relief with IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva in Washington during the 18-24 April Spring Meetings of the Fund and the World Bank...
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IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva has warned that the global economy was fragmenting divisions reinforced by the pandemic and Russia's war threatening the economic order presided over by the Bretton Woods institutions...
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At the launch of the Spring Meetings (18-24 April) IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva spoke of the rocketing food and fuel prices in tandem with broken supply chains as 'a crisis on top of a crisis' (AC Vol 61 No 10 Keeping the food flowing)...
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Vol 63 No 8 |
- ECONOMY
- AFRICA
IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva has been championing a Resilience and Sustainability Trust financed by a reallocation of some of the SDRs to support some of the economies hardest hit by the war in Europe...
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Both Kristalina Georgieva and David Malpass the heads of the IMF and World Bank respectively face accusations that they presided over the manipulation of data for the Bank's 'Doing Business' index...
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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 Monetary Fund they were taking her side in what has become an institutional and personal battle with her counterpart at the World Bank David Malpass...
IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva says the Fund wants to 'magnify' the impact of the SDR allocation either by transferring some of the SDRs or budget loans...
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Vol 62 No 12 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
- G7
IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva says the cumulative economic benefits by 2025 quite apart from the millions of lives saved would be $9 trillion...
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