Culled—Proshare June 17, 2020/FDC In line with expectations and general analysts’ consensus, headline inflation increased for the 9th consecutive month to 12.40% in the month of May from 12.34% in April. Even though the uptick in inflation came as no surprise to analysts, the rate of increase of 0.06% was […]

June 17, 2020/IMF A joint blog first published on the PCT website by Vitor Gaspar, Director, Fiscal Affairs Department, IMF; Navid Hanif, Director, Financing for Development Office, UN; Ceyla Pazarbasioglu, Vice President, Equitable Growth, Finance and Institutions, WBG; and Pascal Saint-Amans, Director, Centre for Tax Policy and Administration, OECD COVID-19 has already infected millions of people […]

Culled—-Proshare June 17, 2020 by FBNQuest Research The indebtedness of African governments has, not surprisingly, been rising since the application of official debt relief in the late 1990s and early 2000s. In isolated cases such as Mozambique, Zambia and Ghana, the debt burden (as a percentage of GDP) is now […]