June 21, 2016/IMF Ms. Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), announced today that Deputy Managing Director Min Zhu intends to leave the Fund when his term expires in late July, 2016. Mr. Zhu was appointed to a five-year term in July 2011. Before that he served […]

Culled—-IMF By David Lipton, First Deputy Managing Director, IMF China Economic Society Conference On Sustainable Development in China and the World June 11, 2016 Shenzhen, China Introduction I would like to thank the Chinese Economists Society for this warm welcome. I am honored to join you today for this discussion […]

June 10, 2016/AfDB Introduction and Background The Africa Infrastructure Development Index (AIDI) is produced by the African Development Bank and serves a number of key objectives, principally: (i) to monitor and evaluate the status and progress of infrastructure development across the continent; (ii) to assist in resource allocation within the […]