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Commonwealth Games 2002  BBC Sport  BBC Weather  Tuesday, 7 May,
2002, 16:47 GMT 17:47 UK Can the IMF save Africa? test hello
test by Andrew Walker BBC Economics correspondent  This is the
last in a series of pieces from Africa, where Andrew Walker has
been travelling with IMF head Horst Koehler.  Mr Koehler went to
Africa to listen, to find out how IMF and World Bank programmes
to tackle poverty are working out on the ground and how they
could do things differently.  It is part of a new approach that
the IMF and the Bank announced in late 1999 which emphasises
poverty reduction and consultation.  Mr Koehler seems to have
liked most of what he heard.  He came away believing that the
countries he visited are by and large on the right road for
sustained economic growth and - the point of the whole exercise
- reducing poverty.  Finding their own way  He also talked about
countries finding their o