The France and China-led Official Creditor Committee set up in May which incorporates both Paris Club and other bilateral creditors has indeed provided the 'financing assurances' required by the IMF Executive Board which the Fund's managing director Kristalina Georgieva has lauded as 'further progress'...
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At the G20 meeting in Bangalore in February IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva said it was 'imperative for the G20 to strengthen the debt architecture' and for broader reform of the international financial system...
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 international tensions around Africa's debts...
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Zambia's President Hakainde Hichilema urged creditors on 23 January to accelerate negotiations to restructure some US$13 billion of the country's $17bn foreign debt after meeting with Kristalina Georgieva managing director of the IMF in Lusaka...
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It has also secured some support from France's President Emmanuel Macron IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva and albeit more qualified from United States climate envoy John Kerry and World Bank President David Malpass...
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IMF officials including managing director Kristalina Georgieva have publicly attributed this year's deterioration of Ghana's debt sustainability largely to factors outside the government's control – such as Covid and fallout from the Ukraine conflict...
IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva has announced that the Resilience and Sustainability Trust to assist countries on long-term structural challenges including pandemics and climate change is now operational...
Dominating the agenda of the Washington meetings was the economic fall-out from the war in Ukraine despite efforts by IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva to sound alarms over lack of action on the effects of debt and accelerating climate change on developing economies (AC Vol 63 No 15 Fund shores up internationalism)...
IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva has backed the idea of rich economies transferring some of their SDRs to Multilateral Development Banks but the plan would need consensus among the G7 the group of the seven biggest economies...
Finance Minister Ahmed Shide discussed debt relief with IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva in Washington during the 18-24 April Spring Meetings of the Fund and the World Bank...
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