Investors may be as fickle as the weather, but the IMF, too, is warning against over-zealous austerity.

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But until Africa's economies become more diversified, they will be over-exposed to changeable weather, fickle aid flows and volatile commodity prices.

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There we just got a series of curve balls, the weather is really fickle.

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