Research and Analytics
Research and Analytics
First of all, there are Different Brands of Crude Oil To start, it is worthy to note that there are different variants of crude oil in the international market with the Brent serving as the benchmark just the same way the United States dollar is the benchmark when converting different currencies of the world. The […]
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 that will fall the most in 2020, as well as give a special case study of selected African countries.
The file attached contains data on Nigeria’s oil imports, non-oil imports, oil exports and non-oil exports from 1981 to 2018. […]
By Godwin Emefiele, Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria. As many people are now aware, the outbreak of the novel coronavirus disease in China has rapidly permeated and profoundly changed the world. While this crisis is first and foremost a public health issue, which has claimed the lives of over 123,600 people worldwide, and […]
Over the past 10 years, Nigeria have recorded surplus (actual revenue minus budgeted revenue) in revenue during three periods and those periods are 2010, 2011 and 2014. In 2010, budgeted revenue was N2.52 trillion while actual revenue was N3.09 trillion. In 2011, the government recorded revenue surplus of N237.50 billion and the revenue surplus was […]
As with every budget which detail expenses to be incurred by a government over a period of time, it contains expenses from salaries down to the lowest items in the budget. The data in the file below contains 2020 budgetary provisions for electricity charges and generator fuel cost for all the MDAs in Nigeria. It […]
According to Enhancing Financial Innovation and Access (EFInA), financial inclusion is the provision of a broad range of high quality financial products such as savings, credit, insurance, payments and pensions, which are relevant, appropriate and affordable for the entire adult population, especially the low income and rural segment of the population.In a glance, there are […]
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 output) for policy makers to look beyond short-term and reactionary measures and to instead assess their progress against the full set of […]
This article explains the trouble that lies ahead of FAAC going forward by first graphically explaining the relationship between oil prices and total monthly allocation, then examining the trend in monthly revenue sharing since 2017, compare with other months and years, as well as forecast what will happen going forward given the global pandemic as well as the price war which have led to share decline in the price of crude oil in the international market.
The Virus which was declared a global pandemic by the WHO on March 11, 2020, has had impact into all markets and economies of the world. With 853,799 cases recorded and over 42,000 deaths, it has a mortality rate of 4.92% as at March 31, 2020. It is now present in virtually all countries of […]
