Financial Markets: Review & Outlook June 19, 2020/Cordros Report The case for the weak performance of the Nigerian equities market over the years has been tied back to a dearth of strong, market-friendly policy reforms. At the start of 2020, the plan to gradually remove implicit energy subsidies, alongside renewed […]

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 […]