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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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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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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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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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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…
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COVID-19: Can Africa Afford Lockdowns?
By Professor Chukwuma Charles Soludo/ Image Credit: WeeTracker This year 2020 begins a new decade that promises to be one of dreadful disruptions, with Africa holding the weakest end of the stick. In…
