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5% in recent weeks prompting Finance Minister Vera Daves de Sousa to shelve plans to test the Eurobond market...
Instead she is opening talks with the IMF on a loan to explore ‘financial options' with $864m due on a bond set to mature in November (AC Vol 66 No 9 Vera Daves de Sousa Angola's trailblazer)...
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Angola's Finance Minister Vera Daves de Sousa has hinted that Luanda may need to request an IMF financing programme...
Finance Minister Vera Daves de Sousa was one of the few African star turns at April's spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank despite her government being shut out of the international markets...
The challenges facing key economy officials – including Finance Minister Vera Daves de Sousa Economic Coordination Minister José de Lima Massano central bank governor Manuel António Tiago Dias and Mineral Resources Oil and Gas Minister Diamantino Azevedo – are legion...
He suggests that the technical competence of key economy appointees like finance minister Vera Daves de Sousa and Banco Nacional de Angola (BNA) governor Jose De Lima Massano bode well for future reforms so long as Angola's president provides the necessary political backing...
Debt dialogueUnder the leadership of youthful Finance Minister since 2019 Vera Daves de Sousa the government will find one of its biggest challenges is to convince China to agree to further debt rescheduling...