OPINION/EDITORIAL

Why Public Finance for Climate Matters

September 21, 2021/EBRD By Jamilah Bahay Image Credit: EBRD The Presidents of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the European Investment Bank (EIB), Odile Renaud-Basso and Werner Hoyer, appealed yesterday for urgent action on climate change, while comparing their complementary work on tackling it in their overlapping regions. The EBRD works across 38 economies […]

Policy Normalisation and Potential Impacts on Emerging Markets

September 21, 2021/United Capital Research Since the initial foreign capital flight triggered by the pandemic in early 2020, Emerging Markets (EMs) have benefitted from the knock-on effects of accommodative monetary policy, which prompted investors to seek higher yields. However, with inflation rising across developed economies and decent economic rebound from […]

FGN and Public Debt Stock Still Manageable

September 20, 2021/Proshare by FBNQuest Research  We saw in the FGN’s investor presentation on Friday for the current Eurobond issue that its domestic debt totalled NGN17.63trn (USD42.8bn at the I&E/NAFEX rate) at end-June, equivalent to 10.9% of 12M GDP to Q2 ’21.  The burden increased by NGN1.12trn in three months […]