IMF expects world economy to grow a sluggish 3% this year, weighed down by Iran war but helped by AI Delegates walk to the entrance of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) headquarters during the World Bank/IMF Spring Meetings at the IMF headquarters in Washington, April 15, 2026. Photo | AP
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The first lesson is what this newspaper warned about on Tuesday when it wrote that the whole crisis arose from “the overarching policy philosophy of South Africa’s governments since the formation of the country in 1910, that the people within the borders must be grouped into categories: […] those who pose the problem […] and…
In 1990, half of the people in sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, East Asia and the Pacific region were living in extreme poverty. Three decades later, an estimated 35 % of the population of sub-Saharan Africa lived in extreme poverty, compared to nine percent in South Asia and one percent in East Asia and the Pacific.…