July 30, 2021/IMF International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva announced today her intention to appoint Catriona Purfield as Director of the Fund’s Human Resources Department. Ms. Purfield, who is currently Deputy Director of the IMF’s African Department, will succeed Kalpana Kochhar, whose retirement was recently announced. She is expected […]
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IMF Discusses a Strategy to Help Members Address Climate Change-Related Policy Challenges
July 30, 2021/IMF On July 16, 2021, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) discussed a paper proposing a strategy to help members address climate change-related policy challenges. The paper highlights macro-critical climate-related policy challenges that will confront all IMF members in the coming years and decades. For […]
United Capital Weekly Pan African Monitor Friday 30th July 2021
July 30, 2021/United Capital Report Anglophone West Africa Nigeria Nigeria held its fourth Monetary Policy Committee meeting of the year this week. The committee held all policy parameters constant, keeping the Monetary Policy Rate (MPR) at 11.5%, the asymmetric corridor at +100bps/-700bps, the Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR) at 27.5%, and […]
