"KRISTALINA GEORGIEVA"

The heads of the world’s predominant global financing, health and trade agencies have united to urge government leaders to urgently finance a new $50 billion roadmap to accelerate the equitable distribution of health tools to help end the pandemic that has devastated lives and livelihoods for 18 months and also set the foundations for a truly global recovery, as well as enhanced health security. WHO

Kristalina Georgieva, IMF’s Managing Director announced Friday at the Global Health Forum the IMF’s USD 50 billion proposal to end the COVID- 19 pandemic. IMF

The IMF’s Managing Director, Kristalina Georgieva, in a conversation today (20 May) with the President of the European Central Bank, Christine Lagarde at the first Vienna Economic Forum said that the Covid-19 pandemic has affected women more than men. Policy makers therefore need to consider this crisis as an opportunity to deal with the gender inequalities that already existed before the pandemic and work on closing the gap. IMF

The IMF will release its Comprehensive Review Surveillance today (20 May), which is considered one of its core activities in addition to lending capacity development and economic analysis. IMF

Sixty years ago, the International Monetary Fund initiated the African Department, which was created as more and more members from the region started gaining independence and applying for membership. On Monday, the IMF’s Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva was joined by the President of Côte d'Ivoire, Alassane Ouattara to celebrate the department’s accomplishments in the region and the road ahead. IMF

IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva hosted a virtual conversation with Canada’s Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland and discussed the importance of policies that promote gender equality during the recovery from the COVID-19 crisis and how working mothers with young children were the biggest casualties from the COVID crisis. IMF

The global economy may be recovering, but there are significant challenges and it is not time to ease up on support, several key policy-makers said at the Spring Meetings of the IMF in Washington, DC today. IMF

“All vulnerable countries exposed in the pandemic and its economic fallout deserve particular attention,” announced IMFC Chair Minister Magdalena Andersson in her first IMFC press conference as the new Chair with IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva on Thursday. IMF

Ahead of COP26, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva joined U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry to discuss how to turn climate ambitions into action while creating vibrant and inclusive opportunities as part of the transition to the new climate economy as part of IMF and World Bank Group’s Spring Meetings. IMF

In her press briefing held today in Washington DC, the IMF’s Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said that vaccinations and policy support were the reasons behind an increase to six per cent in the World Economic Outlook’s latest update. IMF