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Hundreds of Jordanians have protested in the capital Amman against the government's planned tax increases and high unemployment rates.

Egypt’s Central Bank wants the World Bank and International Monetary Fund to include the country’s informal sector in their gross domestic product figures.

One of the International Monetary Fund’s top officials warned on Tuesday that `storm clouds’ were gathering over the global economy.

International Monetary Fund (IMF) approves $3.7 billion credit to Angola

The International Monetary Fund says it has approved a three-year loan of about $3.7 billion for Angola, which seeks to diversify its economy and curb corruption after a new president took office last year.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has put the global debt at $180 trillion, warning highly indebted emerging-markets and low-income countries against what it termed pro-cyclical fiscal policies.

Central African Republic landed a windfall on Tuesday, at least on paper, when Russian state bank VTB reported it had lent the country 12 billion dollars.

Following sell pressure in the Nigerian stock market arising from growing political tension and security challenges in the country, foreign investors pulled out about N43. 78 billion from the local bourse last September.

The Central Bank of Nigeria has injected over $10.97bn, into the Forex Market between January and October this year, to defend the Nation’s currency, the Naira, against other major currencies, including the dollar.” (See Punch Newspaper report of November 18th 2018 titled “CBN Defended Naira with $11bn in 10 months”).

Tunisian civil servants staged the biggest general strike in five years on Thursday after their powerful trade union failed to secure wage hikes in tense negotiations with the government.

Dr Titus Okunronmu, a former Director of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), on Sunday advised the Federal Government to use borrowed funds to develop infrastructure.

An economist, Prof. Ndubuisi Nwokoma, has called on the Federal Government to ensure transparency in revenue generation toward boosting revenue and reducing borrowings.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has cautioned the Federal Government to be mindful of the country’s rising debt service to revenue ratio and take steps to mitigate the situation.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF), says Nigeria is expected to grow by 1.9 per cent in 2018, up from 0.8 per cent in 2017, mostly owing to fewer disruptions in oil production.

President Xi Jinping on Monday pledged to widen access to China's economy, while delivering a veiled rebuke to Trumpism, as he kicked off an import expo amid foreign accusations that he has backtracked on promises to play fair on trade.

African Development Bank, AfDB, has expressed concern that many African owned firms are forced to drop out of the market due to unfair competition from Chinese companies.

The slow and steady depletion of the nation’s foreign reserves has been described as a frightening development that should be arrested with effective fiscal strategies.

Egypt has reached an agreement with the International Monetary Fund on release of the next $2 billion loan installment, the fifth under the country's three-year aid programme, the IMF announced on Wednesday.