Hunger in the Sahel
Hunger is a chronic problem in the Sahel. But now a widespread drought has wiped out crops and made the food situation worse. Millions are at risk. Is the international community taking enough notice?
8 Jan 20135min
Les investissements étrangers dopent la croissance
Au niveau mondial, les investissements directs étrangers explosent. En 2007, ils se sont envolés à 2 billions de dollars EU. Les investissements des nations BRICS dans les pays à faible revenu se son...
8 Jan 20137min
Drowning in Debt
To coincide with the release of March's Finance & Development, we interview one of the contributors to this quarter's magazine, Philip Coggan. In a new book, Coggan argues that the extraordinary rise ...
8 Jan 20138min
Fostering Economic Integration in East Africa
As the East African Community considers an ever closer union, the EAC and the International Monetary Fund co-host a conference to draw lessons from the turmoil in the euro area.
8 Jan 20133min
La riposte à une crise alimentaire
Une nouvelle crise s'annonce dans une région depuis longtemps soumise aux pénuries alimentaires. La sécheresse fait resurgir le spectre de la faim pour des millions d'habitants du Sahel. L'un des pays...
8 Jan 20136min
Keeping Up Growth in the East African Community
Over the last decade, the East African Community has enjoyed some of the fastest growth rates in the world. To continue on its growth path, IMF economists suggest the region can learn lessons from oth...
8 Jan 20135min
Le financement des infrastructures en Afrique
À l'échelle mondiale, les pays africains sont probablement parmi les moins biens lotis en matière d'infrastructure. Pendant de longues décennies, les gouvernements de la région manquaient d'options po...
8 Jan 20139min
In the Face of a Food Crisis
A drought is threatening to bring hunger to millions of people in the Sahel—a belt of grassland and savanna running across Africa under the Sahara desert. We look at how one country, Mali, is coping w...
8 Jan 20135min
