May 15, 2020/United Capital So far, the outbreak of the COVID-19 disease and measures put in place to curb its spread, have left a negative imprint on the economic activities of Sub Saharan African economies (SSA). Notably, the continent’s manufacturing sector, which is still fairly underdeveloped, has been severely affected […]

May 15, 2020 By Cesar A. Mba ABOGO*, Minister of Finance, Economy and Planning of Equatorial Guinea – In 1990, when Cameroon’s football team did the unthinkable and beat Argentina in the World Cup, the proportion of the world’s population living below the poverty line was 37.1 per cent. Fast-forward […]

May 14, 2020/IMFBlog By Diego Cerdeiro, Andras Komaromi, Yang Liu, and Mamoon Saeed With the current fast-changing developments, policy makers need to know what is happening to the economy in real time, but they often must settle for data telling them what happened many weeks ago. And international trade, which […]