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Tracking Trade During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Most trade takes place by sea, and—for navigational safety purposes—virtually all cargo ships report their position, speed, and other information many times a day. A new IMF methodology using these data can help…
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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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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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IMF WEO: How the World will Grow in the Great Lock Down of 2020
This article gives a brief summary of how the IMF expects the world to grow in 2020, highlight the top 10 countries to grow in 2020 (with special focus on Guyana), highlight countries…
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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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Q3 2019 GDP: Nigeria Records its Second Highest Quarterly Real Growth Rate Since 2016
Nominal and Real GDP Explained The GDP (a measure of the size of an economy) is the monetary value of all goods and services produced in a country during a given period of…
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The World, Africa, West Africa and Nigeria’s Economy in 2018
In 2018, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) put the value of all goods and services produced in the world at $84.74 trillion with the United States as the largest economy in the world…
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Demystifying Nigeria’s Conscious Attempt to Keep a Low Debt Profile as Debt Servicing Becomes Worrisome
This research compares the debt figures with global thresholds as well as with the key debt management framework of the Debt Management Office so as to know the debt path of the country…
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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…
