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Nigeria joined the IMF on March 30, 1961. [1] Nigeria is Africa's most populous country, with 222.182 million citizens. [1] The nation's IMF quota stands at 2454.5 million (SDR) along with its special drawing rights amounting to 3702.34 million (SDR). [1] As of July 2023, Nigeria experienced a 3.2 GDP change. [2]
The government structure was weak enough to allow a meaningful seepage of power and funds so that aid was not delivered and initiatives could not be passed and enforced. The infrastructure of state was thoroughly underdeveloped, meaning that IMF resources could not be distributed throughout the state.
There are many examples of structural adjustments failing. In Africa, instead of making economies grow fast, structural adjustment actually had a contractive impact in most countries. Economic growth in African countries in the 1980s and 1990s fell below the rates of previous decades. Agriculture suffered as state support was radically withdrawn.
The statement follows an IMF visit to South Africa in early July to conduct a "post-financing assessment" after its $4.3 billion loan to the country in 2020 to help it fight the impact of the ...
Africa is also among the places most vulnerable to the effects of climate change, with critics calling on the World Bank and IMF to increasingly factor climate resiliency into its decision-making.
Africa’s growth has been sluggish in recent years, but IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva believes new opportunities lie ahead. IMF chief says Africa must do these three things to ...
Zimbabwe in 2005 was economically torn down, in the midst of serious economic crisis; collapsing currency, de-investment, hunger and droughts, shortages of critical food supplies among others. This dates back to 1990s and early 2000s crisis and Zimbabwe's involvement in the war of Congo. Zimbabwe took a credit from IMF and went to war in Congo.
Malawi belongs to Africa Group 1, the IMF's largest constituency, along with 22 other nations. [2] The constituency as a whole yields 2.97 percent of the collective voting power within the fund and is egalitarian, unlike other large constituencies, As of 2017 Maxwell M. Mkwezalamba, Malawi's former Minister of Finance, serves as the constituency's Executive Director, [3] a position that ...