Fate of 10,000 missing refugee children debated in Civil Liberties Committee
How to protect unaccompanied minors and cooperate across borders to find missing children fast were the key issues in an emotional Civil Liberties Committee debate on Thursday about the fate of 10,000 refugee children who have gone missing in Europe...
Southern Africa Officials Participate in IMF-World Bank Debt Sustainability Regional Seminar for Low-Income Countries
On April 18-22 AFRITAC South, in collaboration with the Strategy, Policy and Review Department of the IMF and the Macroeconomic and Fiscal Management Global Practice of the World Bank, held a regional seminar on debt sustainability analysis for low...
Boosting African Agriculture: New AGRA-World Bank Agreement to Support Farming-Led Transformation
In a new push to catalyze growth in Sub-Saharan Africa’s agriculture and food sectors, Wednesday the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) and World Bank Agriculture Global Practice signed a letter of intent to strengthen cooperation, share...
Disaster Preparedness in Morocco to Receive US$200 Million Boost
The World Bank Board of Directors on Wednesday approved a US$ 200 million Program for Results operation to support Morocco’s preparedness to respond to natural disasters. The operation will reward the achievement of specific results in the way the...
IMF Staff Completes Review Mission with Mali
A team from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), led by Lisandro Abrego, held discussions with the Malian authorities during April 4–19 in Washington, D.C. on the fifth review of Mali’s economic and financial program supported by the IMF under the...
International Organizations Take Major Step to Boost Global Cooperation in Tax Matters
The International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the United Nations (UN) and the World Bank Group (WBG) announced Tuesday the details of their joint effort to intensify their cooperation on tax...
IMF's Regional Technical Assistance Center for Central America, Panama and the Dominican Republic (CAPTAC-DR) Meet for General Assembly
The Steering Committee of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)’s Regional Technical Assistance Center for Central America, Panama and the Dominican Republic (CAPTAC-DR) met in Washington, D.C., USA, on April 13, 2016 to assess the activities of the...
Global trade in fake goods worth nearly half a trillion dollars a year - OECD & EUIPO
Imports of counterfeit and pirated goods are worth nearly half a trillion dollars a year, or around 2.5% of global imports, with US, Italian and French brands the hardest hit and many of the proceeds going to organised crime, according to a new report...
Palestinian Authority Incurs US$285 Million in Annual Fiscal Losses
A new World Bank report estimates that the Palestinian Authority (PA) is losing US$285 million in revenues annually under the current economic arrangements with the Government of Israel. The report states that these revenues can significantly ease the...
African Consultative Group Meeting: Statement by the Chairman of the African Caucus and the Managing Director of the IMF
Mr. Abdoulaye Bio-Tchané, Chairman of the African Caucus, and Ms. Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), co-chaired the African Consultative Group meeting at the IMF Headquarters on April 17.
