Ghana is trying to put together a debt restructuring programme to satisfy major stakeholders.
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Ghana’s finance ministry is struggling to build consensus on the country’s debt burden.
Workers install solar panels for a floating photovoltaic solar plant in Germany in April 2022.
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Look for significant progress in 2023 in two key areas, writes a veteran of international climate policy.
Votes aplenty in 2023.
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Zimbabwe, Turkey, Argentina, Pakistan and Nigeria all have presidential or general elections in 2023.
Prime Minister of Barbados, Mia Mottley, a UN climate summit.
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Two of the largest financial institutions are not doing enough to scale up funding for climate action.
Developing countries are calling for more funding and for changes at the World Bank.
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The biggest issues at COP27 involve financing for low-income countries hit hard by climate change. A former World Bank official describes some promising signs she’s starting to see.
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Former prime minister emerges from assassination attempt wounded, but vowing to continue protest against government.
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Various scholars weigh in on the state of Ghana’s economy, how it got into this situation and on the IMF’s involvement.
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Crisis, which crisis?
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Njuguna Ndung'u has the experience that suits Ruto’s bottom-up economics but lacks the political gravitas to appease voters.
The International Monetary Fund recently issued an assessment of the UK economy.
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Why the IMF has weighed into the UK’s current financial situation and what it means for markets.
Kristalina Georgieva, the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, speaking in Senegal in 2019.
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The IMF sends its staff on two types of mission to member countries: to assess the state of the country’s macro economy or to assess the need for financial support.
The writing was on the wall in Sri Lanka.
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An expert on Sri Lanka’s economy identifies and explains three key challenges that Ranil Wickremesinghe will have to overcome if he hopes to steer the country out of its crisis.
The sun sets on Sri Lanka’s protest movement (for now).
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Protests over shortages forced the ouster of Sri Lanka’s president, but the crisis has deep-set roots in ethnonationalism, which has encouraged corruption, argues an expert on the country’s politics.
Various political administrations have failed to prudently manage the economy
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Ghana hasn’t been able to withstand economic shocks or manage its debt because it hasn’t dealt with structural economic problems.
Children queue for porridge in Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe during the height of the COVID pandemic.
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A return to debt sustainability will create room for African policy makers to stave off risks to the post-pandemic recovery.
A policeman marches with a Somali flag during a parade in the capital Mogadishu.
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Whoever wins the presidential election will inherit a host of challenges that have persistently tormented previous Somali leaders.
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Sri Lankans are contending with growing levels of starvation, death and disruption. Now they are also facing the brutal violence of the state.
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The Ukraine crisis is significantly increasing political stress and potential conflict throughout Africa.
Supporters of Imran Khan take to the streets.
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The former prime minister was forced from office by a vote of no confidence. But that doesn’t mean the political drama is over, an expert on Pakistani politics explains.
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Sri Lanka is facing one of its worst ever economic crises. There are a host of reasons, but China is not to blame.