Feb 05, 2015/IMF EXECUTIVE SUMMARY While global growth will receive a boost from the decline in oil prices, the outlook has been revised down. The oil price decline, which reflects to an important extent higher supply, mainly a rise in production in the United States and OPEC’s decision to maintain […]

iMFdirect blog, February 06, 2015  Implementation, investment, and inclusiveness: these three policy goals will dominate the G-20 agenda this year, including the first meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors in Istanbul next week. As Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu recently put it: “Now is the time to act” […]

The debt profile of both the Federal Government and the 36 states of the federation as well as the Federal Capital Territory rose by N1.2tn in one year, statistics obtained from the website of the Debt Management Office in Abuja on Thursday showed. The statistics further showed that the nation’s […]