IMF-World Bank

  • May 23, 2011
  • 2 min read

Selection process timing favours Lagarde at the IMF

The IMF on Friday announced that governments have until June 10 to nominate candidates for the...

International
  • May 20, 2011
  • 2 min read

Eastern Europe transition economies face downside risk

The transition economies will grow by 4.6% in 2011 and 4.4% in 2012, the European Bank for...

Eastern Europe
  • May 19, 2011
  • 6 min read

Next IMF managing director likely to be a European

Dominique Strauss-Kahn today resigned as IMF Managing Director. His arrest, on charges of sexual...

IMF-World Bank
  • May 18, 2011
  • 4 min read

Europe's persistent weaknesses mitigate IMF optimism

The IMF's Regional Economic Outlook for Europe is more than just economic forecasting for the...

EU
  • May 16, 2011
  • 2 min read

Ivory Coast's debt relief programme may be scrapped

An IMF team is due to visit Abidjan on May 18.

Ivory Coast
  • May 16, 2011
  • 2 min read

Strauss-Kahn arrest raises questions for IMF, France

IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn is expected to be arraigned...

International
  • May 11, 2011
  • 2 min read

Strikers and ministers harass Greek premier

Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched through Athens and Thessaloniki today as trade unions...

Greece
  • May 9, 2011
  • 6 min read

New tools help companies to manage corruption risk

Measures and indices of corruption have proliferated in recent years, and are increasingly used...

International