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GDP growth appears positive The World Bank has added its voice to those predicting the global economy will recover faster from the pandemic than previously thought. According to its latest report, …
GDP Numbers Not What They Seem Read More
Kenya is suffering from a financial crisis, and the government has invited the IMF back. But those who survived the IMF and World Bank Structural Adjustment Programmes of the ’80s …
Another IMF Loan Feared For Kenya Read More
The IMF moves forward with its austerity and deregulation agenda for Ecuador. The next commitment for the South American country is so-called “Central Bank independence,” which is will preventing its …
The IMF’s austerity drive comes for the Central Bank of Ecuador Read More
15 December should be a turning point in the IMF’s relationship to the people of Ecuador: a chance for reflection, a fresh start in a new year, an opportunity to …
IMF austerity is strangling Ecuador – again. Read MoreChina’s surging economy is set to overtake 56 countries in the world’s per-capita income rankings during the quarter-century through 2025, the International Monetary Fund projects. By that date, China will …
China to overtake 56 nations by 2025 in per capita income surge Read More
In her speech opening this year’s Annual World Meetings, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva warned of the dangers of an uneven recovery and increasing inequality and talked of the need for …
Ecuador’s new loan program: a tale of two IMFs Read More
New research by the Jubilee Debt Campaign indicates a major breach by the IMF of its own policies, with $93 billion of lending to highly indebted countries, without any debt …
The IMF is spending $93 billion bailing out reckless lenders Read More
Between June and September of last year, the International Monetary Fund provided an emergency bailout package to the Argentinian government totalling just under $60 billion. The move was prompted by …
The IMF In Argentina: Imposing Austerity That Won’t Work, On A Country That Doesn’t Want It Read More
Crowded out: corporate giants are cramping developing nations’ sovereign styles. Rick Rowden looks at the impact of corporate moves to homogenise global trading and investment agreements and how developing countries …
The Case for Policy Space Read More