OPINION/EDITORIAL

Back to Better, Not Normal

African researchers meeting this week must devise ways the continent’s economy can do even better than before the coronavirus pandemic hit December 9, 2020/AfDB By Dr. Rabah Arezki, Chief Economist and Vice President, Economic Governance and Knowledge Management, African Development Bank and Dr. Adeleke Salami, Principal Macroeconomist, Macroeconomic Policy, Forecasting […]

Navigating Capital Flows—An Integrated Approach

December 9, 2020/IMFBlog By Tobias Adrian, Gita Gopinath, Ceyla Pazarbasioglu In a continuous effort to help countries manage volatile cross-border capital flows, the IMF has taken a major step toward a new analytical macroeconomic framework that can guide appropriate policy responses. The work reflects evolving thinking on macroeconomic policy and […]

Ramaphosa is selling off South Africa’s iconic wildlife – and it needs to stop

At his Phala Phala game-breeding operation, Ramaphosa breeds and sells animals to be gunned down by tourists who have more money than morals December 9, 2020/PETA By Jason Baker Should the president of South Africa be trading in protected species and pocketing huge sums of money from their deaths? PETA […]