“My visit to Rabat and Casablanca has been very productive. It was my first visit as the IMF’s Deputy Managing Director to Morocco, which will host this year the IMF and World Bank Annual Meetings in Marrakesh. I am grateful for the warm hospitality of the people of Morocco and look forward to a remarkably successful Annual Meetings in October. The visit was an opportunity to learn first-hand from the authorities about their excellent preparedness to host the largest IMF/World Bank gathering on their soil.

The IMF Executive Board completed the Third Reviews of the Extended Credit Facility (ECF) and the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) arrangements, enabling Cameroon to draw the equivalent of US$73 million in disbursements from the IMF. The economic recovery is underway amid increased challenges in an uncertain global environment, with growth estimated at 3.4 percent in 2022, supported by higher oil prices and non-oil production. Sustained reform implementation will be needed to create additional fiscal space for productive investment and social spending and to move toward inclusive and resilient growth.

Les services du FMI achèvent une visite de travail en République Centrafricaine

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Country Report No. 2023/106

Country Report No. 2023/107

At the premises of the EU Info Centre in Serbia, the European Investment Bank (EIB) Institute unveiled a unique opportunity for young artists in the Western Balkans under the Artists Development Programme, which has been opened up to enlargement countries for the very first time.

On International Women’s Day, the European Investment bank and the European Investment Fund were the first EU Institutions to sign the Luxembourg Women in Finance Charter alongside 67 other major financial services firms. Designed by the Luxembourg Ministry of Finance, the Charter aims to improve gender diversity in the Luxembourg financial centre which employs more than 60 000 women and men.

 AfDB staff with team of the Egyptian Commercial Services, co-organizers of the first industrial and trade business opportunity Seminar, Cairo, 22 February 2023
 

Division manager in the Water and Sanitation Department of the African Development Bank, Ousseynou Guène (in white) and the panelists endorsed concerted solutions to the effects of climate change in West Africa.