OPINION/EDITORIAL

Navigating the Tide: 2022 Outlook

January 19, 2022/InvestmentOne Research Recovery in the global economy is expected to be sustained albeit the pace of growth may be slower than 2021 given base effects; nonetheless, we see the return of economic activities and spending to levels seen prior to the pandemic sometime in H2 2022. The U.S. […]

FG Unveils Rice Pyramids in Abuja

January 19, 2022/CSL Research Recently, President Muhammadu Buhari unveiled 1 million bags of rice paddy stacked as 13 pyramids in Abuja to reduce the country’s import bill by conserving the limited foreign exchange reserves. The President disclosed that one of the continued government’s interventions vis-a-vis the apex bank’s Anchor Borrowers […]

Why Jobs are Plentiful While Workers are Scarce

(PHOTO: RICHARD B. LEVINE/NEWSCOM) January 19, 2022/IMFBlog By Carlo Pizzinelli and Ippei Shibata In the US and UK, the recent labor market puzzle can be partly explained by mismatch, the pandemic’s effect on women (in the US) and older workers leaving the work force. Almost two years after the pandemic upended labor markets, […]