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Nigeria: A Frail Giant?
Since President Muhammadu Buhari's re-election in 2019, the country has faced a myriad of social and economic challenges. Inflation had surged from 11.40% in May 2019 to 17.33% last month; the Naira has…
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Bridging the Digital Divide to Scale Up the COVID-19 Recovery
Digitalization has in the past few years enabled developing countries, in particular, to leapfrog on financial inclusion. Countries like Kenya, Ghana, Rwanda and Tanzania have made great advances in connecting their citizens to…
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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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COVID-19 is Reducing Domestic Remittances in Africa: What does it Mean for Poor Households?
The amount remitted by migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has grown tenfold in two decades, from $4.8 billion in 2000 to $48 billion in 2018. This reflects a steady increase in the number…
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Download Dashboard on Global Competitive Index
The Global Competitive Index (GCI) is an index introduced by the World Economic Forum (WEF) which is an annual yardstick (anchored on how efficiently units of labour and capital are combined for generating…
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COVID-19 & Cheap Oil: An SSA Market Update
Being what we learnt from the RenCap Securities Conference Call held on 25th March 2020 According to the global chief economist of RenCap, Charles Robertson, the COVID-19 outbreak in Italy shows that the…
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Empirical Analysis of the Criteria for the Adoption of “Eco” Currency
This research work concentrates on analyzing how each of the West African Countries have performed in terms of meeting the inflation target, fiscal deficit, debt as a percentage of GDP, import cover as…
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Nigeria Ends 2019 as Second Worst Performing Stock Exchange in Africa
This research work tends to give brief analysis of the performance of the major stock exchange in Africa based on their index levels. It also gave a special preference to Nigeria by focusing…
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The Zimbabwean Stock Exchange is Africa’s Best Performing Stock Exchange
As at Tuesday 12th November 2019 therefore, the Zimbawean Stock Exchange Industrial Index has returned more money for its investors than any other stock exchange in Africa as its Year to Date returns…
