Fri, 05 May 2017 10:15:13 +0000 By BUUMBA CHIMBULU A HIGH-POWERED team from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), led by first deputy managing director David Lipton and its African Department director, Abebe Selassie, arrive in Livingstone today for a high-level conference on Managing Capital Flows in Developing and Low-Income Countries. The conference would also discuss recent trends and behaviour of capital flows to low-income countries in the current scenario of fragile global economic condi-tions. Speakers, panellists and delegates at the Livingstone conference will be drawn from the United States, Kenya, Cameroon, Mozambique, India, Chile, United Kingdom, South Africa and Zambia. The conference is intended to explore the landscape on policy challenges in managing capital flows in a globalised environment and interrogate policy tools that could be deployed to manage the challenges posed by capital flows: macroe-conomic policies; macro-prudential policy; and capital controls. The Cameroon delegation is led by that country’s Minister of Finance, Alamine Ousmane Mey, […]
