29/9/2016/IMF On September 28, 2016 the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) completed the third review of Ghana’s economic performance under the program supported by an Extended Credit Facility (ECF) arrangement. [1] Completion of the review enables the disbursement of SDR 83.025 million (about US$116.2 million), bringing total disbursements […]

September 29, 2016 by iMFdirect By Ian Bremmer and David Lipton Too often, a spirit of international cooperation evaporates just when it is most needed and most promising. And then, lack of cooperation leads to crisis; crisis belatedly forces cooperation; but that cooperation must begin with picking up the pieces. […]

By Joe Bavier Economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa is likely to slip to 1.6 percent this year, its lowest level in two decades, due to continuing woes in the continent’s largest economies South Africa and Nigeria, a World Bank report said on Thursday. Africa has been one of the world’s […]