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No. 143: Three AM Reads: Falling Commodity Prices | Kenyan Regulators Split over Bitcoin | IMF Making the Rounds

May 2, 2017

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cocoa, coffee, commodities, egypt, IMF, Ivory Coast, Kenya, World Bank, zambia

Coffee Prices Are Going to Drop 6% This Year, But My Americano Will Still Be $4 The World Bank put out its forecasts for global commodity prices last week, and it expects coffee, cocoa, and tea prices to fall 6%. Ivory Coast’s President Ouattara recently called on the country’s cocoa farmers to increase their output…
No. 31: Here’s My Issue with the IMF/World Bank Africa Rising Seminar

Apr 8, 2014

Africa, Economics

Africans, agriculture, Development, Economics, GDP, growth, IMF, Inclusive Growth, Mining, Panelists, Technology, World Bank

When I first saw, the agenda for the Africa Rising seminar at this year’s IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings, I posted a tweet: There's a peculiarity in the agenda for IMF/World Bank Spring Meeting seminar on "Africa Rising." What is it? http://t.co/wiuvyow1We — KWAME (@KwameSomPimpong) April 7, 2014 Probably not the wisest thing to not provide any…