A sick country in an economic pandemic

A sick country in an economic pandemic

Good afternoon. Government ministers are going to be practising their lines ahead of attending the “spring meetings” of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank in Washington DC in two weeks’ time. It will be their first chance to sit down with IMF executives since their visit to Mozambique at the end of last year. That meeting, of course, failed to result in a loan deal from the IMF, to the government’s disappointment. And in th…