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...
During a discussion with Macron IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva and World Bank President Ajay Banga Ruto called for both organisations to be replaced as the main global lenders as part of an overhaul of the financial system (Dispatches 28/6/23 Rich economies side-step African calls for global tax treaty)...
The France and China-led Official Creditor Committee set up in May which incorporates both Paris Club and other bilateral creditors has indeed provided the 'financing assurances' required by the IMF Executive Board which the Fund's managing director Kristalina Georgieva has lauded as 'further progress'...
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At the G20 meeting in Bangalore in February IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva said it was 'imperative for the G20 to strengthen the debt architecture' and for broader reform of the international financial system...
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 concerns and international tensions around Africa's debts...
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Zambia's President Hakainde Hichilema urged creditors on 23 January to accelerate negotiations to restructure some US$13 billion of the country's $17bn foreign debt after meeting with Kristalina Georgieva managing director of the IMF in Lusaka...
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It has also secured some support from France's President Emmanuel Macron IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva and albeit more qualified from United States climate envoy John Kerry and World Bank President David Malpass...
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IMF officials including managing director Kristalina Georgieva have publicly attributed this year's deterioration of Ghana's debt sustainability largely to factors outside the government's control – such as Covid and fallout from the Ukraine conflict...
IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva has announced that the Resilience and Sustainability Trust to assist countries on long-term structural challenges including pandemics and climate change is now operational...
