Abebe Aemro Selassie on Africa’s brutal funding squeeze
Increased support would be an investment in global resilience, says the IMF’s Africa head
IN RECENT weeks, as I have been travelling around Africa meeting ministers and central-bank governors, I was reminded of the teacher who taught his students about inequality by laying a $100 bill at the end of a running track. He told them to take two steps forward if they had access to education, another two steps if their mobile phone would not run out of credit, you get the picture. Some students found themselves with just a few feet to sprint to the bill. Others remained near the start line through no fault of their own.
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