OPINION/EDITORIAL

OPEC – Compliance or Bust?

Culled—-Proshare October 8, 2020 By FDC Ltd   The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and its allies (together called OPEC+) met on September 17, 2020 to reassess plans to further ease output curbs in the coming months, and to assess compliance levels amid wavering global demand recovery. The outcome […]

Nigeria Foreign Exchange – Stability In Diversity

Culled—Proshare October 7, 2020 By Vetiva Research   SSA Currencies: Stability in diversity  Risk-off sentiments, triggered by COVID-19, pummeled several emerging and frontier currencies in the first half of the year. Petro-currencies, such as the Nigerian Naira and the Angola Kwanza, had to endure even more pain as both currencies have […]

Finding the Right Policy Mix to Safeguard our Climate

October 7, 2020/IMFBlog By IMF Staff Unaddressed, climate change will entail a potentially catastrophic human and economic toll, but it’s not too late to change course. Global temperatures have increased by about 1°C since the pre-industrial era because of heat-trapping green-house gases accumulating in the atmosphere. Unless strong action is […]