Africa: Actionaid Slams IMF for Bleeding Africa Dry With Austerity - 'Workers Are Paying With Their Lives'

Africa: Actionaid Slams IMF for Bleeding Africa Dry With Austerity - 'Workers Are Paying With Their Lives'

In a blistering new report, global justice group ActionAid has laid bare the devastating toll of International Monetary Fund (IMF)-backed austerity policies on African workers, accusing the institution of effectively gutting public services to feed a never-ending appetite for debt repayment.

While the African continent continues to lose a significant part of its elites trained, responsible, diplomats and researchers gathered in Rabat to discuss ways to contain this phenomenon with the severe economic and social consequences. The post Brain flight in Africa: a meeting in Rabat to stop the haemorrhage appeared first on LesEco.ma.