IMF COUNTRY FOCUS By Jeta Menkulasi, Cesar Serra, and Suchanan Tambunlertchai IMF Middle East and Central Asia Department April 28, 2021 Across the Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan, and Pakistan (MENAP), countries responded to the COVID-19 pandemic with unprecedented scale and urgency. While this strong response helped save lives and […]
OPINION/EDITORIAL
Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals Will Require Extraordinary Effort by All
April 29, 2021/IMFBlog by Abdelhak Senhadji, Dora Benedek, Edward Gemayel, and Alexander Tieman The pandemic’s impact on the world’s poor has been especially harsh. COVID-19 may have pushed about 100 million people into extreme poverty in 2020 alone, while the UN warns that in some regions poverty could rise to […]
Growing Exponentially Beyond The Odds
From June 16-17, African CEOs will gather virtually, for the most impactful leadership conference April 29, 2021/Breakfast Club Africa Centered around the theme “The Africa we want, beyond the odds’’, this two-day conference will provide a global platform for leaders across sectors to learn from each other and achieve exponential […]
