Culled—IMF February 11, 2020 IMF Country Focus Infrastructure improvements will be crucial in the Philippines as the country looks to become an upper middle-income country and reduce poverty rates from 16.6 percent in 2018 to 14 percent by 2022. Structural economic reforms, along with sound macroeconomic policies, helped the […]

February 10, 2020/Coronation Report January started so well: February is another matter. Nigeria’s stock market was world’s best-performing in January, foreign money flowed into its fixed-income instruments. Then came the coronavirus, fears over global growth and a sharp drop in oil prices. There is no reason to panic, in our […]

February 10, 2020/IMFBlog By Carlos Mulas-Granados, Richard Varghese and Vizhdan Boranova Tired of reading articles about how a robot will take your job? We’ve all heard horror stories that foresee the devastating consequences that automation will have on people’s working lives—yet much less attention has been devoted to what workers […]