Articles
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Broad, Fast Action to Save Lives and Help Countries Rebuild
While the economic scale of the crisis grabs attention, and could even paralyze us, the human toll is even more pressing. Millions of lives in the poorest countries are on the precipice. The…
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Five Things we Learnt from the 2019 NBS Poverty and Inequality Report
5 Key things you should know about the poverty situation in Nigeria based on the Nigerian Living Standards Survey.
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Hunger Amid Plenty: How to Reduce the Impact of COVID-19 on the World’s Most Vulnerable People
The World Bank’s Commodity Markets Outlook comes with large caveats including uncertainty over the pandemic’s duration and severity; the direction of energy and fertilizer prices; currency movements; changes to trade and domestic support…
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How Pandemics Leave the Poor Even Farther Behind
By Davide Furceri, Prakash Loungani, and Jonathan D. Ostry / Image Credit: IMF The COVID-19 crisis is now widely seen as the greatest economic calamity since the Great Depression. In January, the IMF…
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COVID-19: What we Learnt One Week after Gradual Ease of Lockdown
On 4th May, the first phase of the gradual ease started and residents of Lagos state and Abuja were able to go out to their places of work again. As an independent economic…
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Nigeria’s Policy Responses (as at 8th May, 2020) to COVID-19
Culled from the International Monetary Fund / Image Credit: IMF Background Nigeria has been severely hit by the spread of COVID-19 and the associated sharp decline in oil prices. Government policy is responding…
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State-Owned Enterprises in the Time of COVID-19
By Vitor Gaspar, Paulo Medas, and John Ralyea/ Image Credit: WEF The pandemic has highlighted the role of the public sector in saving lives and livelihoods. State-owned enterprises are part of that effort.…
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In their Numbers; Financial and Job Losses in the Aviation Sector Around the World
Due to the outbreak of Covid-19, countries have resorted to restricting movements, closing their borders as well as closing down the domestic economy (with the exception of essential services being allowed to move).…
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Why Nigeria Needs To Adopt Data Analytics In Combating Corona Virus
At the tail end of the last quarter, the Nigerian government closed its land borders, banning all international flights and restricting interstate movement and consequently announcing a total lockdown in three states; Lagos,…
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COVID-19: Now is the Time for LASG to Lift Ban on Okada and Keke Napep
This article gives an insight into how the citizens will likely react to the ease of lockdown within the first few weeks. It also explains why the use of Okada and Keke Napep…
