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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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IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva has warned that the global economy was fragmenting divisions reinforced by the pandemic and Russia's war threatening the economic order presided over by the Bretton Woods institutions...
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At the launch of the Spring Meetings (18-24 April) IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva spoke of the rocketing food and fuel prices in tandem with broken supply chains as 'a crisis on top of a crisis' (AC Vol 61 No 10 Keeping the food flowing)...
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Vol 63 No 8 |
- ECONOMY
- AFRICA
IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva has been championing a Resilience and Sustainability Trust financed by a reallocation of some of the SDRs to support some of the economies hardest hit by the war in Europe...