Africa and the Global Economic Crisis: Weathering the Storm
By Antoinette Sayeh Last week, my colleague Hugh Bredenkamp talked about how the IMF is helping the low-income countries overcome the global economic crisis. This week, I want to follow this theme,...
View ArticleBeyond Growth: the Importance of Inclusion
By Antoinette Sayeh (Version in Français) Economists care about growth. Governments care about what it can achieve: more jobs and more income for more people. An increasing number of African...
View ArticleShared Frustrations: How to Make Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa More...
By Antoinette M. Sayeh (Version in Français) Suddenly it’s the thing everyone is talking about. Income inequality. Not just between countries, but inequality within countries. In North Africa and the...
View ArticleAfrica’s Success: More Than A Resource Story
By Antoinette M. Sayeh When meeting with people outside Africa, I’m often asked whether Africa’s growth takeoff since the mid-1990s has been simply a “commodity story”—a ride fueled by windfall gains...
View ArticleHow Low-Income Countries Can Diversify and Grow
By Chris Papageorgiou, Lisa Kolovich, and Sean Nolan (Version in Español) Low-income countries have spent a lot of time thinking about how they can achieve faster growth, and we have done some...
View ArticleA Big Step Forward for Bolstering Financial Inclusion
By David Marston, Era Dabla-Norris, and D. Filiz Unsal (version in Español) Economists are paying increasing attention to the link between financial inclusion—greater availability of and access to...
View ArticleBuilding A Monetary Union in Africa
By iMFdirect It’s like the European Union but for East Africa. In this podcast by the IMF, find out how Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi stand to benefit from the creation of the East...
View ArticleManaging Capital Flows in Frontier Economies
By Jonathan D. Ostry, Atish R. Ghosh, and Mahvash S. Qureshi There has been a remarkable increase in financial flows to frontier economies from private sources which, in relation to their economic...
View ArticleShared Frustrations: How to Make Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa More...
By Antoinette M. Sayeh (Version in Français) Suddenly it's the thing everyone is talking about. Income inequality. Not just between countries, but inequality within countries. In North Africa and the...
View ArticleAfrica’s Success: More Than A Resource Story
By Antoinette M. Sayeh When meeting with people outside Africa, I’m often asked whether Africa’s growth takeoff since the mid-1990s has been simply a “commodity story”—a ride fueled by windfall gains...
View ArticleHow Low-Income Countries Can Diversify and Grow
By Chris Papageorgiou, Lisa Kolovich, and Sean Nolan (Version in Español) Low-income countries have spent a lot of time thinking about how they can achieve faster growth, and we have done some...
View ArticleA Big Step Forward for Bolstering Financial Inclusion
By David Marston, Era Dabla-Norris, and D. Filiz Unsal (version in Español) Economists are paying increasing attention to the link between financial inclusion—greater availability of and access to...
View ArticleBuilding A Monetary Union in Africa
By iMFdirect It’s like the European Union but for East Africa. In this podcast by the IMF, find out how Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi stand to benefit from the creation of the East...
View ArticleManaging Capital Flows in Frontier Economies
By Jonathan D. Ostry, Atish R. Ghosh, and Mahvash S. Qureshi There has been a remarkable increase in financial flows to frontier economies from private sources which, in relation to their economic...
View ArticleThe Fruits of Growth: Economic Reforms and Lower Inequality
By Christine Lagarde Versions in: عربي (Arabic), 中文 (Chinese), Français (French), 日本語 (Japanese), Português (Portuguese), Русский (Russian), and Español (Spanish) Growth is essential for improving the...
View ArticleUganda’s Recipe for Growth
By IMFBlog July 21, 2017 Construction worker in Uganda (photo: James Akena/Reuters/Newscom) After two decades of steady growth, Uganda’s economy has slowed, and life for Ugandans is not improving fast...
View ArticleRoads or Schools: A Critical Tradeoff
By Manoj Atolia, Bin Grace Li, Ricardo Marto, and Giovanni Melina November 9, 2017 Versions in 中文(Chinese), Español (Spanish), Français (French), 日本語 (Japanese) Low-income countries tend to spend less...
View ArticleTaxes, Debt and Development: A One-Percent Rule to Raise Revenues in Africa
By Vitor Gaspar and Abebe Aemro Selassie December 5, 2017 Versions in عربي (Arabic), 中文(Chinese), Español (Spanish), Français (French), 日本語 (Japanese), Русский (Russian) School children in Ghana:...
View ArticleSub-Saharan Africa: Diversifying for Tomorrow
By IMFBlog February 16, 2018 Photo: iStock by Getty Images/subman Countries in sub-Saharan Africa need to diversify their economies, and the region’s youth need to be at the heart of it, says Axel...
View ArticleChart of the Week: Government Debt Is Not the Whole Story: Look at the Assets
By IMFBlog October 23, 2018 The Millennium Bridge in London, England: governments often don’t include the value of their assets, like bridges and roads, as well as natural resources, when they measure...
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