IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Khan said in Kenya that the IMF as a changing institution is imagining a new AFRICA-IMF partnership. Khan was reinforcing the tone of the IMF-Africa meeting in Tanzania last year. As to what the new partnership looks like remains to be fully articulated. But I, like many, welcome the streamlining of fund-conditionality as well increased the policy space or country-ownership of development policy that the IMF is now promoting. To that end, I would like to encourage the Zimbabwe government to take advantage of this opportunity and strongly advocate for its Midterm Economic Plan launched late last year to the international community. As a student of international economics and development, the changing IMF presents a watershed event in global political economy. Instead of the 1980s/90s fiscal straight-jacket that the IMF pushed on struggling economies, the increased policy space now offered presents a strong platform for greater and meaningful international co...
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