OPINION/EDITORIAL

Big Oil, Little Oil Have Full Lives Ahead – FBNQuest

Culled—Proshare May 12, 2020 By FBNQuest Research Although cargoes of Nigerian crude are unsold on the high seas and although we very briefly saw shippers of US WTI pay to be rid of their cargoes, we are not writing an obituary for oil. Rather, we suspect that the pandemic has […]

Can Insurance Lead Nigeria’s Economic Stabilization?

Culled—Proshare May 11, 2020 By Ekerete Ola Gam-Ikon Sounds unthinkable, indeed preponderous and only worth considering due to the season we are in, when the strongest and smartest are, afterall, not as we thought. Right? These are times that the solution to the biggest problem the World has may be […]

How Pandemics Leave the Poor Even Farther Behind

May 11, 2020/IMFBlog By Davide Furceri, Prakash Loungani, Jonathan D. Ostry The COVID-19 crisis is now widely seen as the greatest economic calamity since the Great Depression. In January, the IMF expected global income to grow 3 percent; it is now forecast to fall 3 percent, much worse than during […]