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 taking her side in what has become an institutional and personal battle with her counterpart at the World Bank David Malpass...

And if the G20 does eventually agree to a restructuring it can only persuade not compel Glencore to participate – even if World Bank President David Malpass has publicly called on Glencore to play 'engage in that debt sustainability effort'...

The perception remains that the Donald Trump-backed World Bank managing director David Malpass is unfairly tightening requirements for recipients of its lending...

Ncube's letter is addressed to David Malpass President of the World Bank Kristalina Georgieva managing director of the International Monetary Fund and Akinwumi Adesina President of the African Development Bank...

Matters were not helped by a public dispute between Adesina and David Malpass the President of the World Bank who was nominated by US President Donald Trump...

World Bank President David Malpass appears to have pulled back from his initial insistence on policy conditions on emergency lending which could have held up funds for months...

But World Bank President David Malpass nominated by Donald Trump last year favours tougher conditions on credits or debt moratoriums...

World BankAnnouncing an initial financing initiative of up to $12bn of which $8bn is new money World Bank President David Malpass said that $1...

' The Washington meeting convenes under Mnuchin's chair Ethiopia's Egypt's and Sudan's foreign ministers plus World Bank President David Malpass...

In October under the new leaders of the institutions – Kristalina Georgieva as IMF Managing Director and David Malpass as the Bank President – economists have adjusted the forecasts downwards again...