May 15, 2020 By Cesar A. Mba ABOGO*, Minister of Finance, Economy and Planning of Equatorial Guinea – In 1990, when Cameroon’s football team did the unthinkable and beat Argentina in the World Cup, the proportion of the world’s population living below the poverty line was 37.1 per cent. Fast-forward […]
OPINION/EDITORIAL
Tracking Trade During the COVID-19 Pandemic
May 14, 2020/IMFBlog By Diego Cerdeiro, Andras Komaromi, Yang Liu, and Mamoon Saeed With the current fast-changing developments, policy makers need to know what is happening to the economy in real time, but they often must settle for data telling them what happened many weeks ago. And international trade, which […]
COVID-19 response must target African agriculture and the rural poor-OPINION PIECE
May 14, 2020/IFAD by Olusegun Obasanjo and Hailemariam Desalegn Boshe Africa has so far escaped the worst health consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the continent looks like it could be the worst hit from the economic fallout of the crisis: 80 million Africans could be pushed into extreme poverty […]
