International Monetary Fund

A view of a pharmacy through protective plastic in Astoria, Queens, during the COVID-19 outbreak in New York City.
UN Photo/Evan Schneider

COVID-19: Growth forecast at -3 per cent, as IMF offers debt relief to most vulnerable nations in Africa, Asia, Middle East and Caribbean

14 April 2020
Economic Development

Forecasting the “worst economic downturn since the Great Depression”, the International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday that growth for the year was likely to end up at minus three per cent, with a dramatic change evident since the last World Economic Outlook report in January.  

World Bank Headquarters, Washington DC. Photo: World Bank/Simone D. McCourte
World Bank/Simone D. McCourte

Global economy: ‘we must do everything possible’ to avoid global ‘fracture’ caused by US-China tensions, urges Guterres

19 October 2019
Economic Development

Tensions around global trade and technology continue to rise and the international community needs to “do everything possible” to prevent the world being split into two competing spheres, led by the United States and China. 

Building hospital gurneys at the Tautmann factory in Turkey.
World Bank/Simone D. McCourtie

IMF cuts global growth outlook, but predicts pick up later in 2019

9 April 2019
Economic Development

The outlook for global growth is at its lowest since the financial crisis, but expected to pick up in the second half of 2019, the International Monetary Fund reported on Tuesday, so long as “policy missteps that could harm economic activity” are avoided.

Jim Yong Kim (left) and Matt Damon.
Screengrab from World Bank video.

Matt Damon on helping 5.5 million access water: World Bank

27 April 2017
General News

Hollywood star Matt Damon’s been telling the World Bank how a simple loan scheme has allowed around 5.5 million people to access affordable water.

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Young women in the Arab region. (file)
UNDP

Saudi women’s access to workforce a “human rights issue”

21 April 2017
General News

Barriers to women’s full workplace participation persist in Saudi Arabia, despite UN data showing that economic growth improves with a more diverse workforce.

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Photo: OCHA
OCHA

UN Gender Focus: humanitarian crises, women in Bolivian prisons and gender inequality

12 January 2017
UN Gender Focus

Women and girls “far more vulnerable” in humanitarian crises

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Women in South Sudan.
UN Photo/Tim McKulka

Keeping women out of the workplace costs US$17 trillion

9 January 2017
General News

Keeping women out of the workplace costs the global economy around US$17 trillion, the head of a leading NGO in Canada has told the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

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Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda.
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe

Making economic policies more inclusive to women

18 November 2016
General News

Although women’s economic participation benefits society, they continue to face barriers in the labour market such as gender wage gaps and legal restrictions.

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Women in Libya; UN
UNSMIL

UN Gender Focus: midwives in Libya, women’s economic empowerment and internet connectivity

17 November 2016
UN Gender Focus

Libyan women hampered by lack of midwives and gender-based violence

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Martin Elia Lomuro, Cabinet Affairs Minister in the Transitional Government of National Unity of South Sudan reads a communiqué after the Security Council delegation met President Salva Kiir. UNMISS Photo/Isaac Billy

UN and Africa: focus on South Sudan, Darfur and African taxes

8 September 2016
UN and Africa

South Sudan gives go-ahead for UN force

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