OPINION/EDITORIAL

The Crisis is Not Over, Keep Spending (Wisely)

November 2, 2020/IMFBlog By Oya Celasun, Lone Christiansen, and Margaux MacDonald The pandemic-induced economic crisis is set to leave deep scars. Human capital erosion from prolonged high unemployment and school closures, value destruction from bankruptcies, and constraints on future fiscal policy from elevated public debt top the list. Groups that […]

E-Payments Industry Continues to Show Promise

Culled—Proshare November 2, 2020 by CSL Research The payments industry in Nigeria continues to demonstrate its promising growth with the recent data from the Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System (NIBSS) showing solid growth across the various e-payments channels in the first 9 months of 2020. NIBSS Instant Payment (NIP) transactions recorded […]