IMF / EBOLA

An IMF spokesman said Thursday that the Ebola outbreak inWest Africais already having an acute economic impact. IMF

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:00:52
• Production Date: 28 August 2014
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND - IMF
• Subject Topical: ECONOMIC CONDITIONS; DISEASES
• Geographic Subject: WEST AFRICA
• MAMS Id: 1189975

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STORY: IMF/ EBOLA
SOURCE: IMF
TRT::52
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 28 AUGUST 2014, WASHINGTON DC

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2.SOUNDBITE(English) Gerry Rice, IMF Spokesman:
“The Ebola outbreak is having an acute macroeconomic and social impact on three already fragile countries in West Africa. That’s Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.”
3.Cutaway reporters
4.SOUNDBITE (English) Gerry Rice, IMF Spokesman:
“Our staff is actively working with the governments of those three countries to prepare an economic assessment of the impact of the outbreak. What is already clear at this stage is that growth is likely to slow sharply in all three cases and significant financing needs are likely to arise.”

WASHINGTON DC – RECENT

5. med shot, exterior, IMF

Storyline

An IMF spokesman said Thursday that the Ebola Outbreak in West Africa is already having an acute economic impact.

“The Ebola outbreak is having an acute macroeconomic and social impact on three already fragile countries in West Africa. That’s Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone,” said Gerry Rice, IMF spokesman.

Rice said that the social impact of the crisis will be significant. He said it will likely to lead to increased poverty and food insecurity among vulnerable groups with an impact on employment in the agricultural sector.

“Our staff is actively working with the governments of those three countries to prepare an economic assessment of the impact of the outbreak. What is already clear at this stage is that growth is likely to slow sharply in all three cases and significant financing needs are likely to arise,” Rice said.