| January 28, 2009 | - The International Monetary Fund predicted that world economic growth in 2009 would be the worst since World War II. “We now expect the global economy to come to a virtual halt,” said the IMF's chief economist.
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BBC
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| April 15, 2005 | - The International Monetary Fund announced that sub-Saharan Africa's
economy had grown 5 percent last year, with inflation at its lowest in twenty-five years.
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BBC News
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| January 7, 2004 | - The International Monetary Fund published a report warning that the United States' budget and trade deficits threaten to destabilize the entire global economy; Bush Administration officials dismissed the report and said that lots of countries run huge budget deficits.
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New York Times
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| September 23, 2003 | - The International Monetary Fund called for the destruction of Afghanistan's poppy fields, which supply a $2.5 billion opium export industry. The fund said that opium accounts for up to 50 percent of the Afghan economy.
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Reuters
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| September 22, 2003 | - The International Monetary Fund accused Arafat of moving about $900 million into a bank account under his personal control.
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New York Times
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| January 21, 2003 | - The International Monetary Fund agreed to postpone Argentina's scheduled $1 billion debt payment.
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| December 26, 2000 | -
Russia was planning to earn billions for becoming the world's largest nuclear waste dump; the atomic energy minister, Yevgeny Adamov, said the plan would allow Russia, which just announced it might default on its debt again, to avoid “going with a begging bowl to the IMF, which we have done up to now to our shame.” Adamov recently criticized the Ukraine for closing the Chernobyl power station, saying that it was perfectly safe.
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| December 0, 2000 | - The head of the International Monetary Fund warned that the world was on the “brink of systemic meltdown.”
| Source:
BBC
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| September 26, 2000 | - Twenty thousand hippies were descending on Prague in anticipation of a meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Trade Organization; Czech police, 11,000 of whom were standing by to subdue the hippies, were also trying to prevent as many as possible from entering the country.
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