What: Africa Investment Forum Investment Roundtable
Who: Africa Investment Forum founding partners
When: Monday, 22 May 2023; 15:00-17:00 Egypt time (GMT+3)
The African Development Bank is supporting Egypt’s efforts to tap the Panda bond market to advance the renewable energy and sustainable water management sectors among others
Selected Issues Paper No. 2023/029
An International Monetary Fund (IMF) team led by Ms. Anastasia Guscina conducted virtual and in-person mission with the Surinamese authorities during May 8-16 to discuss policies to complete the second review of Suriname’s economic recovery program supported by the IMF’s Extended Fund Facility.
The two-year arrangement was approved on May 27, 2022 for an amount of SDR 4.0035 billion (about US$5.3 billion or 300 percent of quota). The Peruvian authorities have reiterated their intention to continue to treat the arrangement as precautionary. The authorities intend to exit the arrangement conditional on the reduction of external risks, in line with their strategy that sees the use of the facility as temporary.
An International Monetary Fund (IMF) team, led by Ms. Ran Bi, visited Doha during May 2–11, 2023, to gather facts on recent economic and financial sector developments, and the authorities’ policy actions and plans.
Transcript of Press Briefing on Ghana
“The mission has reached staff-level agreement with the Cameroonian authorities on the economic and financial policies that could support the approval of the fourth reviews of the program under the ECF and EFF arrangements. Completion of the fourth reviews by the IMF Executive Board, scheduled in late June 2023, would enable the disbursement of SDR 55.2 million (about US$73.8 million).
