Culled—Proshare August 15, 2020 by FBNQuest Research For this week’s column we are looking at the prevalence of COVID-19 in another African country and the policy response of its government. The country is South Africa, which, according to the database maintained by Johns Hopkins University in the US, has seen […]

August 14, 2020/United Capital Report Analysis of SSA foreign exchange condition in H1-2020 showed a broad-based weakness against the US dollar, as the outbreak of COVID-19 triggered sharp capital outflows (especially portfolio investments), exposed the fragilities in each country’s external account and negatively impacted economic activities across the region. Notably, […]

August 13, 2020/IMFBlog By IMFBlog The pandemic has altered people’s lives in both enormous and small ways. Our editors have picked the top recent blogs that dig into the details of what COVID-19 means for people: the impact on women and the young, what it means for the food supply, […]