JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel on Sunday approved barring entry to foreign nationals and the use of controversial technology for contact tracing as part of its efforts to clamp down on a new coronavirus variant.
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Washington D.C – October 19, 2021: International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva announced today that Gita Gopinath, the Fund’s Chief Economist and Director of the Research Department, intends to leave the Fund in January 2022 and return to Harvard University’s Economics Department as planned when her public service leave ends. Harvard University had extended Ms. Gopinath’s leave of absence on an exceptional basis by one year, which has allowed her to serve as Chief Economist at the IMF for three years.
Washington, DC – October 21, 2021. Sub-Saharan Africa’s economy is set to recover in 2021 – a marked improvement over the extraordinary contraction of 2020. This rebound is most welcome and primarily results from a favorable external environment, including a sharp improvement in trade and commodity prices.
WASHINGTON DC, October 125, 2021 - The following is the Communiqué of the Forty-Fourth Meeting of the International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC) of the International Monetary Fund which took place as part of the annual meeting taking place at the IMF in Wahington DC.
WASHINGTON DC, 11 October 2021 — The fact that 'Needs' greatly outstrips 'resources' in emerging and developing countries, is a longstanding issue. But heightened concerns were evident this week as the Group of Twenty-Four countries (G-24) gathered to discuss responses to the confluence of crises confronting members.
WASHINGTON, DC, Ocober 12, 2021 - The IMF is warning in its latest Global Financial Stability Report that Covid-19’s lingering impact is fading optimism among investors, which could lead to financial tightening in the medium term, Tuesday (October 12).
WASHINGTON DC,October 12, 2021 - The IMF is lowering its global growth projection for 2021 slightly to 5.9 percent while keeping it unchanged for 2022 at 4.9 percent. However, this modest headline revision masks large downgrades for some countries the Fund reports in its World Economic Outlook released Tuesday (October 12) in Washington, DC.
Washington, DC – August 23, 2021: The International Monetary Fund is making available US$650 billion SDR Allocation in additional liquidity to the global economic system – in order to supplement countries’ foreign exchange reserves and reducing their reliance on more expensive domestic or external debt.
UNITED NATIONS, New York, June 16, 2021 - The Secretary-General Antonio Guterres' message to mark the International Day of Family Remittances, comes as World Bank data showed that cash wired home from migrants in wealthy countries, dropped only 1.6 per cent in 2020 from 12 months earlier, to $540 billion, far lower than initial estimates.
The Group of 7 is an informal group of seven powerful democracies: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States. The presidents of the European Commission and European Council also attend G-7 meetings because several of Europe’s largest countries are also members.
