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IMF World Bank, Wfp and WTO Urge Coordinated Action on Food Security
Date: April 13, 2022
By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The World Bank, International Monetary Fund, UN World Food Program and World Trade Organization on Wednesday called for urgent, coordinated action on food security, and appealed to countries to avoid banning food or fertilizer exports. In a joint statement, the leaders of the four institutions warned that the war in...
Exclusive-IMF Hopes to Mobilize $45 Billion for New Trust to Aid Broader Range of Countries
Date: April 13, 2022
By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The International Monetary Fund hopes to mobilize around $45 billion for a new trust to help a broader range of countries, including some middle-income economies, deal with climate change and other longer-term challenges, a paper prepared by IMF staff and reviewed by Reuters shows. The IMF’s executive board is...
Sri Lanka Unilaterally Suspends External Debt Payments, Says Needs Money for Essentials
Date: April 12, 2022
By Uditha Jayasinghe and Jorgelina do Rosario COLOMBO/LONDON (Reuters) -Sri Lanka’s central bank said on Tuesday it had become “challenging and impossible” to repay external debt, as it tries to use its dwindling foreign exchange reserves to import essentials like fuel. The island nation’s reserves have slumped more than two-thirds in the past two years,...
Analysis-Russia-Ukraine Fallout Starts Felling Fragile ‘frontier’ Economies
Date: April 4, 2022
By Rachel Savage and Marc Jones LONDON (Reuters) – The fallout of the Russia and Ukraine war has just helped tip two of world’s poorest countries into full-blown crises, and the list of those at risk – and the queue at the International Monetary Fund’s door – will only get longer from here. They may...
France Will Need to Boost Deficit Reduction Plans After Election – Auditor
Date: February 17, 2022
PARIS (Reuters) – The next French government will need to revise current budget deficit reduction plans after a presidential election in April to ensure France does not fall further behind other European countries, the public audit office said on Wednesday. President Emmanuel Macron’s government currently plans to cut the public sector budget deficit below an...
Georgieva Pressured World Bank Employees to Favor China in Report – Ethics Probe
Date: September 17, 2021
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