Some of that ties in with US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen's instructions to the World Bank to produce wide-ranging finance reform proposals for the shareholders early this year...
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Both Georgieva and United States Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen who arrived in Lusaka on 22 January agree with Hichilema that lack of progress on the debt workout is holding back Zambia's economy...
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US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has talked up sweeping reform of the IMF and the World Bank which are likely to lead on climate financing but without getting into specifics (AC Vol 63 No 20 Geopolitical divides take centre stage at the UN)...
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And US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has separately called for a radical reform of the Bretton Woods institutions the IMF and the World Bank again without getting into specifics...
The scale of Kenya's indebtedness was highlighted by United States Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen's remarks to the US Congress this week to justify increased American contributions to the International Monetary Fund...
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However US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen insisted that the agreement 'will stop the four-decade long race to the bottom of corporate taxation...
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Vol 62 No 6 |
- ECONOMY
- AFRICA
United States Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen wants to ensure that the SDRs prioritise the poorest countries and are not used simply to repay Chinese loans...
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Vol 62 No 5 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
The move prompted three Democrat lawmakers – including the Chair of the House Committee of Foreign Affairs – to write a 3 February letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen saying the waiver 'upends US policy' towards Congo-Kinshasa and calling for it to be reversed...
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United States Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen stalled a G20 plan for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to issue hundreds of millions of dollars in Special Drawing Rights (SDR) which can be traded for hard currency when she introduced demands for greater transparency and accountability over their use on 26 February...