i am if, as emergency support during the global pandemic in countries like sam bin was in beak of also recently turned to the i'm if assistance especially of the china tightened it's tanks making the i m f. the preferred option, zambia though was the 1st african country to default on its i'm if loan to, to it's worsening economic situation during the global pent, they make ultimately forcing zambia to restructure 8 states of $52.00 of africa's 54 nations bar from the i missed the last 3 years and economic downturn, worsening debt, then created the greater demand for assistance in 2020. i meant assistance to low income countries such to $13000000000.00, compared to an average of $2000000000.00 per year, and that was before covert. let's talk about the report and bring in daniel lee. he's a division chief in the i m f research department. he's joining via skype from singapore . welcome to al jazeera, so the i m. f, provis upwards it's global growth projections for the year from the previous forecast. back in october, what was it that made the difference? well, yes, we are seeing of slow