By Peter OBIORA InvestAdvocate Lagos (INVESTADVOCATE)- The International Monetary Fund (IMF)  said on Wednesday it will release on September 30, 2015 the quarterly data on the currency composition of official foreign exchange reserves (COFER). The global lender said for the first time, the data will be released with a list […]

September 15, 2015/IMF Executive Summary Financial inclusion is distinctly moving up the reform agenda, both in individual countries and at the international level. To date, more than 60 governments across the world have set financial inclusion as a formal target. This year’s post-2015 Development Agenda squarely puts financial inclusion as […]

September 14, 2015by iMFdirect By Rabah Arezki and Akito Matsumoto “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” With these words Charles Dickens opens his novel “A Tale of Two Cities”. Winners and losers in a “tale of two commodities” may one day look back with […]