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The eurozone crisis could hurt South Africa's economy and the country should maintain a supportive monetary policy to ensure growth in the medium term, the head of the International Monetary Fund...
Date: 23/06/2011
Source: The Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
Title: SA: Joemat-Pettersson, at the G20 Ministers of Agriculture conference, Paris
South African consumer inflation accelerated more than expected in May, boosting chances the Reserve Bank might start lifting interest rates before the end of the year rather than early in 2012....
A U.N. global food crisis summit risked embarrassing failure to reach any formal agreement on combating hunger threatening a billion people worldwide.
Delegates from 183 countries at the Rome...
World Bank President Robert Zoellick on Thursday announced $1.2 billion in loans and grant financing to expand its assistance to poor countries struggling with the effects of soaring fuel and food...
Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade has threatened to sue the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) if it does not repay running costs deducted from funds raised to help Africa cope with...
South Africa's powerful labour federation COSATU on Tuesday threatened marches and possible strikes to protest against rising food prices.
The federation called for the government to set up a...
Higher global food and fuel prices pose new policy challenges for Sub-Saharan Africa because food represents a larger share of what poorer consumers buy, the International Monetary Fund said on...