OPINION/EDITORIAL

Nigeria November 2021 CPI: Domestic Prices to Trend Southwards on Favourable Base Effects.

December 16, 2021/Cordros Report According to the recently released data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), headline inflation moderated by 60bps to 15.40% y/y in November 2021 – the eighth consecutive month of decline and the lowest since November 2020 (14.89% y/y). The headline inflation print was 8bps higher than our […]

5G Auction: A New Dispensation?

December 16, 2021/CSL Research According to reports, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), on Monday, 13 December 2021, auctioned its two available 100MHZ spectrum licenses in the 3.5GHz spectrum band to deploy 5G Network in Nigeria. Although there were three bids, the auction produced two winners, MTN Nigeria and MAFAB Nigeria […]

Global Debt Reaches a Record $226 Trillion

(PHOTO: ORLA/ISTOCK BY GETTY IMAGES) December 15, 2021/IMFBlog By Vitor Gaspar, Paulo Medas, and Roberto Perrelli Policymakers must strike the right balance in the face of high debt and rising inflation. In 2020, we observed the largest one-year debt surge since World War II, with global debt rising to $226 trillion as the […]