The global spread of COVID-19 and the rising number of coronavirus cases in Africa are fueling anxiety about negative economic growth, failing healthcare and collapsing food systems April 17, 2020/AfDB By Atsuko Toda and Martin Fregene We are facing great uncertainty on the African continent. The global spread of COVID-19 […]

April 16, 2020/IMFBlog By Alejandro Werner As of today, about 3,000 people have died from the COVID-19 virus in Latin America and the Caribbean. While the pandemic continues to spread across the region, countries are facing the worst economic recession since countries started producing national accounts statistics in the 1950s. […]

Culled—Proshare April 16, 2020 by CSL Research Earlier this week, the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) announced certain policies it plans to implement in the immediate, short and medium term to reposition the Nigerian economy as soon as possible while preventing a prolonged recession. Our searchlight beams […]