{"id":68962,"date":"2025-04-25T18:29:24","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T18:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/turn-demographic-dividend-into-growth-imf-to-africa"},"modified":"2025-04-25T18:29:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T18:29:24","slug":"turn-demographic-dividend-into-growth-imf-to-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/turn-demographic-dividend-into-growth-imf-to-africa","title":{"rendered":"Turn Demographic Dividend into Growth \u2013 IMF to Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Eswatini. <\/strong><\/span><b>The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has asked African governments to utilise their growing working-age population to develop the economy.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Africa\u2019s case, what we see is a demographic dividend from a young population,\u201d said, Deniz Igan, Division Chief, Research Department, IMF.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c&#8230; and the question then comes how best to leverage that, how must we use that and challenge it to grow,\u201d she quizzed, urging structural reforms, investments in healthcare and education and deepened international cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Igan said this in response to a question posed on the back of the release of the April 2025 World Economic Outlook (WEO) report by the IMF.<\/p>\n<p>The event forms part of a series of activities for the 2025 Spring Meetings \u2013 a joint event by the IMF and the World Bank Group (WBG).<\/p>\n<p>The report, titled, \u201cA Critical Juncture amid Policy Shifts,\u201d projects a 0.4 per cent decline in Sub-Saharan Africa\u2019s economy to 3.8 per cent in 2025, expecting an improvement to 4.2 per cent in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, IMF Chief Economist, said the region improved significantly last year to four per cent, but the decline in growth for 2025 \u201cis in line with a softer global outlook.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are seeing the same forces that played in the region, as we are seeing more globally, and a downturn in the double division of production that is of dissimilar magnitude about 0.4 per cent,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The report projects a 2.8 per cent global growth in 2025 and three per cent in 2026, as the global economy entered a phase of heightened vulnerability, marked by tightening trade tariff tensions and financial conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Emerging Market and Developing Economies (EMDEs) are projected to slow to 3.7 per cent in 2025, before picking up slightly to 3.9 per cent next year, while 1.4 per cent growth was expected for Advanced countries in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe path forward demands clarity and coordination. Countries should work constructively to promote a stable and predictable trade environment, facilitate debt restructuring, and address shared challenges,\u201d said, Mr. Gourinchas.<\/p>\n<p>He also recommended addressing domestic policy and structural imbalances, to ensure internal economic stability.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis will help rebalance growth inflation trade-offs, rebuild buffers, and reinvigorate medium-term growth prospects, as well as reduce global imbalances,\u201d the IMF Chief Economist, said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Eswatini<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Eswatini. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has asked African governments to utilise their growing working-age population to develop the economy. \u201cIn Africa\u2019s case, what we see is a demographic dividend from a young population,\u201d said, Deniz Igan, Division Chief, Research Department, IMF. \u201c&#8230; and the question then comes how best to leverage that, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":68961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-68962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","tag-eswatini"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Turn Demographic Dividend into Growth \u2013 IMF to Africa - Eswatini<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/turn-demographic-dividend-into-growth-imf-to-africa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Turn Demographic Dividend into Growth \u2013 IMF to Africa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Eswatini. 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