September 28, 2020 Article Credit: Baker McKenzie In a post-pandemic environment, African banks will have to navigate not only an economy in recession, but one where there will be many disruptors to existing business models and a rapid acceleration of existing trends such as digitalisation, cybercrime and the importance of […]
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Bullish Sentiment Extinguished By Demand Fears
September 25, 2020/OilPrice.com With oil prices having rebounded above $40 last week on the back of inventory draws and hurricane outages, bearish sentiment returned to markets this week due to a second wave of COVID-19 threatening to shut down European economies once again. Friday, September 25th, 2020 Oil prices continue […]
Mission Impossible? Can Fragile States Increase Tax Revenues?
September 25, 2020/IMFBlog By Bernardin Akitoby, Jiro Honda, and Keyra Primus The COVID-19 shocks are proving to be especially challenging for fragile states. Pre-COVID, fiscal revenues were low in such countries and governments were struggling to raise them. Now, COVID-19 is hitting them hard and fiscal revenues are falling. Once […]
