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May 19, 2025
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The region’s progress and perseverance over the past few years is notable, but continued efforts will be needed to sustain the recovery and enhance the region’s resilience. Caution, consistency, and credibility are now more important than ever.
April 25, 2025
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How will sub-Saharan Africa navigate an uncertain global economic landscape? IMF African Department Director, Abebe Aemro Selassie, discusses our latest Regional Economic Outlook, with forecasts, analysis, and policy recommendations for the region.
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Uma recuperação arduamente alcançada na região foi abalada por acontecimentos recentes. A súbita alteração das perspetivas mundiais ensombrou as perspetivas de curto prazo da região e tornou a formulação de políticas ainda mais desafiadora.
April 23, 2025
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1:05:23
The rise of digital money and payments has transformed the payment landscape in Sub-Saharan Africa. Policymakers explored the future policy agenda related to digital payments, aimed at improving financial inclusion and payment efficiency.
December 12, 2024
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01:26
On his first trip as IMF Deputy Managing Director, Nigel Clarke reflects on Kenya’s remarkable dynamism, vision, and the warmth of its people.
November 6, 2024
328 Views
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Professor Branko Milanović, and African Department Director, Abebe Aemro Selassie, discuss practical strategies that African policymakers can employ to effectively address and reduce inequality—and how the IMF can support them in these efforts.
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03:23
António David, chefe de divisão no Departamento de África do FMI, apresenta o mais recente relatório sobre as “Perspetivas Económicas Regionais para a África Subsariana”.
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02:36
Les perspectives économiques de l'Afrique subsaharienne s'améliorent lentement grâce en partie à des réformes difficiles qui commencent à porter leurs fruits.
October 25, 2024
322 Views
02:50
The economic outlook for sub-Saharan Africa is slowly improving, with growth projected to rise from 3.6% in 2024 to 4.2% in 2025. IMF African Department Director Abebe Aemro Selassie presents our analysis in the latest Regional Economic Outlook.
September 9, 2024
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In this episode of Africa Perspectieves, Professor Emmanuel Gyimah-Boadi, co-founder and board chair at Afrobarometer, and Abebe Aemro Selassie, Director of the African Department, discussed the pressing issues facing democracy in Africa.
July 29, 2024
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01:25
To support Ethiopia's Homegrown Economic Reform Agenda that aims to stimulate private investment and jobs, the IMF Board approved a 4-year $3.4bn program to help address economic challenges, strengthen growth, and resume rising living standards.
March 12, 2024
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1:31:01
Le Forum a discuté cette année la manière de fixer des objectifs budgétaires et de déterminer le rythme et la composition de l’ajustement potentiel en fonction des circonstances spécifiques des pays.
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This year’s Forum will discuss how to set fiscal targets and determine the pace and composition of the potential adjustment depending on countries’ specific circumstances.
February 12, 2024
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04:24
With support from the IMF and its development partners, the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs and Norges Bank, Mozambique has made tangible progress in strengthening public financial management and modernizing its central bank.
January 24, 2024
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1:00:06
A conversation between Masood Ahmed, President of the Center for Global Development, and the IMF’s African Department Director, Abebe Aemro Selassie, exploring the development and debt in Africa.
December 19, 2023
609 Views
03:26
Executive Boards of IMF and the World Bank’s International Development Association have approved the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative Completion Point for Somalia, which provides total debt service savings for the country of $4.5 billion.
October 10, 2023
699 Views
01:46
Abebe Aemro Selassie, Director of the IMF's African Department, presents the analysis in the latest Regional Economic Outlook.
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02:09
Thibault Lemaire, Economista no Departamento de África do FMI apresenta o mais recente relatório sobre as “Perspetivas Económicas Regionais para a África Subsariana”.
July 20, 2023
697 Views
1:06:15
A conversation between Atif Mian, Professor of Economics, Public Policy, and Finance at Princeton University and the IMF’s African Department Director, Abebe Aemro Selassie, exploring the nexus between finance and macroeconomics in Africa.
May 31, 2023
452 Views
52:43
A conversation on the political economy of reforms in Africa.
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