December 11, 2020/IMFBlog By Tahsin Saadi Sedik and Rui Xu In the months and years following previous pandemics, the countries most affected saw a rise in social unrest. Based on this historical trend, the COVID-19 pandemic could pose a threat to the social fabric in many countries, but these trends […]

December 11, 2020/United Capital Report At the start of the year, sentiments in the Sub Saharan African (SSA) Eurobond Market were broadly positive as countries in the region reaffirmed their sustained appetite for foreign-denominated debt with the latest issuer in 2020 being Gabon and Ghana. However, the outbreak of the […]

December 10, 2020/Proshare by FDC Ltd The Federal Government recently announced a N5 reduction in the pump price of fuel, effective December 14. This has raised eye brows on who controls the price of petroleum products… the government, the market, or the unions? Is the market deregulated or not? If […]