March 5, 2021/IMFBlog By Antoinette Sayeh, Jiro Honda, Carolina Renteria, Vincent Tang International Women’s Day, March 8, marks a year from the start of widespread lockdowns in response to COVID-19. As an IMF blog warned back in July, women have borne the economic and social brunt of the pandemic. With […]
OPINION/EDITORIAL
IMF Weekend Read-Negative Interest Policies Have Worked
March 5, 2021/IMF Weekend Read In today’s edition we focus on why negative interest rates policies have worked, the 9th African Fiscal Forum, which took stock of the health, economic and social impact of the pandemic on sub-Saharan African countries, which new measures are required to support European businesses, our […]
Coronavirus Is Helping Africa Economies Compete
Remote commerce was part of a boom before Covid-19. Now that’s tending to limit the damage. March 4, 2021/ABMI20 Innovator Chats Matthew Winkler,Bloomberg News Co-founder and Editor-in-Chief, Emeritus When all is said and done in 2020, African economies will probably have outperformed the rest of the world during the coronavirus […]
