IMF-World Bank

  • May 2, 2017
  • 2 min read

Athens’s reluctance to reform will cost time and money

The Greek reform package is mostly needed and could have been agreed long before now but for governments’ intransigence

Greece
  • Apr 27, 2017
  • 7 min read

Political strife in Bosnia may dry up foreign funding

Politicians are putting party interests before the country’s economic and financial viability

Bosnia-Hercegovina
  • Apr 19, 2017
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IMF sees cause for muted optimism in Argentina

Growth and inflation figures look set to improve, but the impact may not benefit voters in advance of October

Argentina
  • Apr 13, 2017
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All sides set conditions for Greek debt breakthrough

Terms have been agreed to unlock bailout negotiations but debt relief clouds implementation and the election cycle looms

Greece
  • Apr 12, 2017
  • 7 min read

Nigerian economic plan will sidestep difficult choices

An Article IV consultation by the IMF has called into question Abuja's recently unveiled economic growth plan

Nigeria
  • Apr 6, 2017
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Bosnia will run out of liquidity without IMF finance

The IMF’s suspension of its loan programme was expected, given Bosnia’s political paralysis; it could have rapid effects

Bosnia-Hercegovina
  • Mar 30, 2017
  • 7 min read

Third term bid will cloud Zambian funding prospects

Progress on a new IMF package is complicated by plans for the president to stay in power amid a civil society clampdown

Zambia
  • Mar 29, 2017
  • 2 min read

Strong Israeli economic growth faces longer-term risks

A positive IMF report could strengthen the finance minister in his showdown with the premier

Israel