Conflicting plans to address the developing economy debt crisis will be demanding urgent attention, along with proposals to boost climate finance and for thoroughgoing institutional reform at the...

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...

The global downturn will hit Africa's economies harder than any other region according to the latest forecast from the International Monetary Fund: average growth in Africa is set...

Fresh plans to restructure debt in 54 developing countries facing a surge of repayment demands were mooted by multiple officials at the IMF and World Bank annual meetings...

Two over-arching challenges dominate the global economy: how to cut inflation without triggering recession and cooperating on restructuring debt in emerging and developing economies, according to Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas,...

Reacting to diplomatic stalemates at the UN Security Council and the G20, the IMF is becoming the international forum of last resort – on debt, climate finance and...

Senior officials in the UN and other international agencies have been ratcheting up their analyses of the damage to Africa's economies following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Ahunna Eziakonwa,...

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...