Africa’s ‘optimist-in-chief’ on the continent’s renaissance: ‘Don’t just believe me, believe the data’

In an exclusive interview, Akinwumi Adesina, head of the African Development Bank, says the outlook is good for a continent with the workers of the future and the best investment opportunities

IMF should give poor countries $300bn a year to fight climate crisis, says Joseph Stiglitz

Developing nations need equivalent of US Inflation Reduction Act, says Nobel prize-winning economist

Shocks are new normal for weakened global economy, says IMF head

Kristalina Georgieva says fund had been conducting ‘thinking the unthinkable’ scenario-planning before Israel-Hamas war began

Severe debt burdens thwarting progress on climate and poverty, says World Bank

Bank’s new president Ajay Banga urges faster action on providing debt relief but says there is no ‘magic wand’

UK interest rates will need to stay high into 2024, warns IMF

Britain faces ‘fairly subdued’ growth and ‘persistent’ inflation, global economic health check finds

IMF clings to a hopeful agenda as crisis follows crisis

At the fund’s annual meeting this week in Morocco, ambitions for climate and debt relief may be overwhelmed by events – again

WTO slashes growth forecast for global goods trade by more than 50%

Persistently high interest rates have had chilling effect on consumer spending, says trade body

‘It’s not done’: IMF head warns of costs in finally overcoming inflation

Kristalina Georgieva discusses protracted high interest rates and first term dominated by two ‘unthinkable’ events

Bond market sell-off sends UK long-term borrowing cost to 25-year high

Rate tops level last seen after Liz Truss mini-budget as fears of global inflation and US political instability spook markets

Central banks ‘risk global recession unless they relax 2% inflation targets’

Economic arm of UN says pro-growth stance needed, with interest rate rises increasing inequality

UK admits extra £330m a year in charges for post-Brexit animal and plant imports

Labour’s Stella Creasy elicits confirmation of higher charges to firms, which some say risk further fuelling food inflation

Investigation launched into killings and evictions on World Bank tourism project

Tanzania government blamed for violence against villagers in national park, while thousands more people face losing their homes

Germany will suffer worst from world economic slowdown, says OECD

Higher interest rates and weaker trade, as well as sluggish growth in China, likely to hit big economies

Beware sharper economic slowdown and tougher inflation, warns adviser to central banks

Bank of International Settlements said markets risk ignoring aftershocks from inflation such as insolvencies and property price falls

UK manufacturers cut hiring plans amid ‘sharp slowdown’, survey finds

Firms preparing for difficult year as ‘potent cocktail’ of difficulties takes hold, says industry lobby group