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How to Analyze the Financial Statement of Banks
Like any other companies, financial institutions prepare financial statements for regulatory purpose and assist their users in making economic decisions. However, banks' business models are different from other companies. Thus they attract a…
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Fallacy of an African Giant
This exposition tries to carry out a comparative analysis between Nigeria and selected economies in Africa. South Africa in Southern Africa, Egypt from Northern Africa, Kenya from East Africa and our neighbour (Ghana)…
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How Competitive is the Nigerian Economy Compared to its Peers in Africa?
According to the WEF, a country’s performance on the overall GCI results as well as each of its components is reported as a ‘progress score’ on a 0-to-100 scale, where 100 represents the…
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Macroeconomic Analysis and Comparison of Some Selected Countries in Africa
With an estimation that over half of global population growth through 2050 will come from Africa (UN Estimates), the continent has the world’s fastest growing population. The continent is a 2.49 trillion dollars…
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Significant Relationship among the Components of a Misery Index: The Nigerian Scenario
The misery index is a measure of how miserable the citizens of a country can be at a particular period of time. It is measured by evaluating the addition of Inflation Rate, Unemployment…