South AfricaMore than half of African countries are either in debt distress or teetering on the edge, showing the continent’s worsening financial predicament, Executive Director-African Forum and ...

However, these loans from the IMF can have deep and varied effects on their economy, particularly African economies. Typically as a last resort, countries often turn to the IMF in times of ...

Each country's (nominal) commodity export price index is a geometric weighted average of world prices for 44 individual nonfuel commodities (taken from IMF commodity price data), using ...

The map below aids in gauging inflation trends in almost two hundred countries around the world—mainly those that report data to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The inflation rate is ...

By contrast, the African nations of Chad and Lesotho had the lowest average life expectancy measurements among all countries at approximately 53 years. All of the bottom 10 countries for life ...

Eight years later the west African country ... than 0.5% in fairly rich countries like South Africa to 27% in very poor ones such as Central African Republic (see map). Map: The Economist More ...