International Monetary Fund

The generous Netherlands' foreign aid programme is being overhauled to concentrate on a reduced list of 36 countries, with defined priorities. African countries will get just over a...

The United States, the economic superpower, holds the power of veto in the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. That could be threatened by proposals to increase the...

Rich countries have made grand promises at no fewer than three summit meetings this year – in Monterrey, Kananaskis and Johannesburg. However, their African counterparts did not expect...

Benin's Finance Minister, Abdoulaye Bio Tchane, will take over as the International Monetary Fund's Africa Department chief next month. He was once tipped as a potential prime minister...

Watching Africa's halting economic progress amid war and recession, World Bank officials are launching an emergency drive for aid. Despite a decade of economic reform and debt relief,...

More African countries are to test out a World Bank-backed commodity insurance scheme as prices for coffee, cocoa and cotton hit new lows on the terminal markets in...

Two days of violence between demonstrators and police at the annual meeting of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in the Czech capital, Prague, on 26-27 September...

Eventually one government minister's patience snapped with the nit-picking technical debate on mechanisms of debt relief for the world's poorest countries. Canada's Finance Minister, Paul Martin, seemed to...

Africa moved up the agenda at the 28-30 September annual meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in Washington after the Group of Seven (G-7) industrialised...

The debt of poor countries has finally become a significant political issue in the West. The latest changes on debt policy have been prompted by non-governmental organisations' relentless...