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Inflation Scares in an Uncharted Recovery

By Abdulazeez KurangaPosted on October 6, 2021Posted in Africa & World EconomyTagged Commodity prices, Growth, IMF, Inflation, Stimulus, Unemployment, WEONo Comments

The good news for policymakers is that long-term inflation expectations are well anchored, but economists still disagree about how enduring the upward pressure for prices will ultimately be.

Some have said government stimulus may push unemployment rates low enough to boost wages and overheat economies, possibly de-anchoring expectations and resulting in a self-fulfilling inflation spiral. Others estimate that pressures will ultimately be transitory as a one-time surge in spending fades.

Five Lessons Evergrande Taught Us About The Chinese Economy

By Abdulazeez KurangaPosted on September 28, 2021Posted in Africa & World EconomyTagged China, Debt, Evergrande, Growth, Lehman brothers, Real estate, TradeNo Comments

The Evergrande story is bigger than just one company. It’s about China’s unsustainable model of economic growth, which has relied on endless investment and a mad, debt-fueled development frenzy in recent years. That model helped China soar, but the country is now experiencing some turbulence. Last week, some alarmist observers were calling this China’s “Lehman moment” — a reference to the collapse of Lehman Brothers that preceded the 2008 financial crisis — but China-focused economists argue that’s overblown.

Drawing Further Apart: Widening Gaps in the Global Recovery

By Abdulazeez KurangaPosted on July 28, 2021Posted in Africa & World EconomyTagged COVID-19, Growth, IMF, Nigeria, Outlook, United States, Vaccines, WEONo Comments

The global economic recovery continues, but with a widening gap between advanced economies and many emerging market and developing economies. Our latest global growth forecast of 6 percent for 2021 is unchanged from the previous outlook, but the composition has changed.

Growth prospects for advanced economies this year have improved by 0.5 percentage point, but this is offset exactly by a downward revision for emerging market and developing economies driven by a significant downgrade for emerging Asia. For 2022, we project global growth of 4.9 percent, up from our previous forecast of 4.4 percent. But again, underlying this is a sizeable upgrade for advanced economies, and a more modest one for emerging market and developing economies.

Why Soaring Stocks Could Be Bad News For The Economy

By Abdulazeez KurangaPosted on May 12, 2021Posted in Africa & World EconomyTagged Bond, Boom, Economy, Equities, Fixed Income, GDP, Growth, Inflation, StocksNo Comments

While it’s had some ups and downs, the stock market has soared to historic heights in recent years. For many, that’s great news: it’s a sign that the economy and their retirement accounts are doing really well. For Jan Eeckhout, however, the booming stock market is a sign that there’s something deeply wrong with the economy.

Sure, the economist says, he has a retirement account with stocks, and he personally benefits from the ongoing bonanza on stock exchanges. But the rocket ride of the stock market is powered by the exploding profits of increasingly powerful corporations. Their increasingly ridiculous profits, he says, are eating the income of the vast bulk of workers and hurting the overall economy. That notion is the central thesis of his forthcoming book, The Profit Paradox: How Thriving Firms Threaten the Future of Work.

A Long, Uneven and Uncertain Ascent

By Adebisi SamuelPosted on October 24, 2020Posted in Africa & World EconomyTagged COVID-19, employment, Fiscal Policy, Fiscal Stimulus, Growth, IMF, Monetary Policy, PandemicNo Comments

This crisis is far from over. Employment remains well below pre-pandemic levels and the labor market has become more polarized with low-income workers, youth, and women being harder hit. The poor are getting poorer with close to 90 million people expected to fall into extreme deprivation this year. The ascent out of this calamity is likely to be long, uneven, and highly uncertain. It is essential that fiscal and monetary policy support are not prematurely withdrawn, as best possible.

[Archive] From Recession to Growth: The Story Of Nigeria’s Recovery from the 2016 Economic Recession

By Abdulazeez KurangaPosted on August 30, 2020Posted in EconomyTagged cbn, Fiscal Policy, Foreign Exchange, Foreign Reserve, Growth, Monetary Policy, Nigeria, Recession, RecoveryNo Comments

Being a Paper presented by Godwin I. Emefiele, Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria at the Special Convocation of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, on Friday, May 17, 2019 at the Princess Alexandra Auditorium, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu State

[INFOGRAPHICS] China’s Quarterly Growth Rate Overtime

By Adebisi SamuelPosted on July 17, 2020Posted in AnalyticsTagged China, Growth, IMF, Infographics, Real GDP, RecessionNo Comments

China’s latest quarterly growth rate shows that the country has averted a recession in the first half of the year as real GDP growth rate printed at +3.2% in Q2’20 compared to -6.8% recorded in Q1’20. China looks to be recovering in our view and in line with the IMF projection, the country will not […]

SOCIAL AND MANAGEMENT SCIENCES PROJECT TOPICS

By Abdulazeez KurangaPosted on October 6, 2019Posted in Articles, DataTagged Accounting, Economic, economics, Growth, Management Science, project, Project Topics, Social scienceNo Comments

Here is a compiled list of 50 Project topics for students of Economics, Accounting, Business Administration, Sociology, Political Science, History, Agriculture, Business and Adult Education.

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