IMF Country Focus December 22, 2020/IMF By Nathaniel Arnold and Vina Nguyen IMF, European Department The COVID-19 pandemic is creating severe social and economic hardship in Europe. While the extraordinary policy measures and lockdowns dampened the impact of the pandemic’s first wave, a large second wave and new lockdowns are […]

December 22, 2020/IMFBlog By Atish Rex Ghosh As 2020 draws to a close, many of us cannot wait for this annus horribilis to end. And for good reason: this year has seen more than a million and a half COVID-19 deaths; an economic collapse far greater than that of the […]

December 22, 2020/CBN 1.0            Introduction The conduct of Inflation Attitudes Survey (IAS) by the Statistics Department of the Central Bank of Nigeria commenced in June 2009. It collects on a quarterly basis, the views of households on changes in prices of goods and services in the last twelve months, and […]