Six months after IMF African Department Director Abebe Selassie suggested – during April’s joint IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings – that Africa’s economies could be at a turning point...

Officials tried valiantly to inject some optimism at the annual meeting of the IMF and World Bank from 21-26 October in Washington DC amid growing concerns over global...

Hopeful promises emerging from the Kenya-hosted summit for the International Development Association, the World Bank's soft loan affiliate, on 29-30 April have to be set against wider cuts...

At the International Monetary Fund and World Bank spring meetings In Washington DC on 19 April the Fund's International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC) – comprising IMF Managing...

Africa's economies may be at a turning point should the 'right policy choices' be made according to the IMF's African Department Director Abebe Selassie. The IMF and the...

Concerns about growth and investment levels in Africa are deepening due to much slower growth in China, capital flight to western economies and the risks that a wider...

The first IMF and World Bank annual meetings to be held in Africa for 50 years, delivered some gains for the continent against the backdrop of heightened geopolitical...

Grand talk about remaking the international system and a second edition of Bretton Woods meeting, which founded the IMF and the World Bank in 1944, has yielded little...

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...