West Africa: "Fourteen countries out of sixteen will apply an austerity plan encouraged by the IMF"
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In a street in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
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Text by: Olivier Rogez Follow
West African governments are preparing to cut public spending over the next five years, in order to recover the economic losses caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
This is what the NGO Oxfam affirms.
The aid measures decided last year and this year by the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have been completed.
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Lenders are now calling for austerity policies, according to Oxfam, which calls for a change of course, otherwise inequalities and poverty will increase.
Sidi Assalama Dawalack is Oxfam's regional director for West and Central Africa.
She warns that this austerity policy risks plunging millions of people into extreme poverty.
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