Research and Analytics
Research and Analytics
This research article aims to explain Nigeria’s budget performance by comparing it with the actual performance in each of the fiscal years. While the article gives explanations of some trends from 1981, it is specifically focused on budget performance from 2010 to 2019.
The excel sheet below contains data on Poverty rate in Nigeria, Foreign Direct Investment, Foreign Portfolio Investment, External Debt and Exchange rate. While Poverty rate is the dependent variable, FDI, FPI, EXD and EXR serve as the independent variables. All the data start from 1981 with the exception of both FDI and FPI that start […]
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 well as the target of tax revenue as a percentage of GDP.
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 on the stock performance of its stock exchange during the year under review.
Handedness refers to the more preferred hand of an individual, usually the better skilled hand. Society made me believe that there exist two groups: Right and Left handers. But I have been around long enough to know that this classification is nothing but a scam; at least in the part of the world where I come from. To tell the truth, there includes just one group and a bunch of ‘un-usuals’ who constitute a minority—A major minority.
The aim of this research work is to identify the key drivers of growth in the export category as well as examine the compositions of Nigeria’s imports while explaining the country’s misplaced priority in terms of the production and exportation of certain commodities.
On Wednesday 11 of December, the World’s largest integrated oil and gas company (and fourth largest integrated refiner in the world) officially listed on the Saudi Stock Exchange after its IPO by selling 1.5% (equivalent to 3 billion shares) of the company’s share capital ($1.7 trillion at valuation) to the public, thereby making it surpass the amount Alibaba raised in 2014 ($25 billion) as it raised a record $25.5 billion- Largest IPO in the history of mankind.
This article gives the list of the top 100 leading fintech cities in the world. It also gives a brief insight into the leading fintech cities in Africa as well as fintech in the United States.
This research article aims to provide answers to the differences in analysts opinions on Nigeria having a debt problem or revenue problem by providing trend analysis of debt servicing in Nigeria, as well as compare debt services with capital expenditure over the period. It concluded by examining the budgeted revenue and actual revenue in 2018 to come about a conclusion on whether Nigeria has a debt problem or revenue problem.
This research compares the Nigeria’s 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 going forward.
