OPINION/EDITORIAL

The Benefits of Setting a Lower Limit on Corporate Taxation

June 9, 2021/IMFBlog By Aqib Aslam and Maria Coelho On June 5, 2021, Finance Ministers from the Group of Seven major industrialized nations committed to a global minimum corporate tax rate on multinationals of at least 15 percent. While there are a number of details yet to be hammered out […]

Twitter Ban: A Clog in the Wheel of Capital Flow?

June 8, 2021/Proshare by CSL Research   Barely 3 days after President Muhammadu Buhari’s tweet was deleted for violating the microblogging platform community rules, the government announced an indefinite ban on the operations of the social networking service in Nigeria. As expected, this generated a public outrage by the Nigerian […]

Four Factors Behind the Metals Price Rally

June 8, 2021/IMFBlog By Martin Stuermer and Nico Valckx As economies reopen in various parts of the world, the price of some commodities has soared, including the prices of prominent industrial metals. The extent to which the metals price rally may lose steam depends on how multiple factors will play […]