Christine Madeleine Odette Lagarde

The visit to Abuja last month by the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund Christine Lagarde included discussions about the shortfall of at least $10 bn...

Nigerian officials put their case forcefully enough to IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde during her visit to Abuja dissuading her from any public criticism of the government's anti- devaluation posture...

The IMF Africa Department told Managing Director Christine Lagarde in July that the Fund should be on standby with an aid package similar to Ghana's $900 mn...

The World Bank and International Monetary Fund attended alongside two-dozen regional and international organisations more than 2 000 investors and two-dozen heads of state and dignitaries including United States Secretary of State John Kerry telecoms magnate Naguib Sawiris Britain's Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond and the IMF's Christine Lagarde...

In a sign of the country's growing weight among developing economies the team was quickly wheeled in to meet IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde and Bank President Jim Yong Kim...

New economic woesNow a new set of economic troubles is assailing the region's economies: most immediately threatening for state revenue in Cameroon Chad Ghana and Nigeria is the fast-falling international oil price; more widely damaging is the slowdown in China which has become the leading trading partner for most economies in the region together with what the IMF Director General Christine Lagarde calls the 'new mediocre' in most other industrialised economies...

Instead the focus was on how to avoid what IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde called 'the new mediocre' a world of anaemic growth with the EU dipping in and out of recession and emerging markets no longer playing the role of alternative economic motor...

IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde warned in mid-January of Africa's vulnerability to the ‘tapering' of quantitative easing: a rise in US interest rates could reduce investment in Africa...

Christine Lagarde the IMF's Managing Director told the UN that tackling energy subsidies should be a critical part of the response to tackling climate change...

The newish chiefs – the United States' Jim Yong Kim took over as President of the Bank in mid-2012 and France's former Finance Minister Christine Lagarde took over at the Fund a year earlier – spelt out fresh plans to counter climate change reform tax systems and reduce inequality at their annual meetings in Washington on 11-13 October...