July 15, 2021/IMFBlog By Estelle Xue Liu, Karim Foda, and Sebastian Weber One of the positive surprises about last year’s recession is how little damage it inflicted on average household and corporate balance sheets in Europe. In the past, deep recessions were followed by protracted weakness as they left households […]

July 15, 2021/CSL Research Yesterday, news reports say the United Arab Emirates and Saudi-Arabia reached a compromise on oil production quota. Earlier in the month at the 18th meeting of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries and its Allies (OPEC+), the decision of members to increase daily production by an […]

July 15, 2021/United Capital Report Last week, the National Center for Disease Control (NCDC) announced that the “Delta” variant of Covid-19 had been detected in the country. The highly infectious nature of the variant suggests the increased possibility of a third wave of Covid-19 infections in Nigeria. On Tuesday 13th July, Nigeria recorded […]