Foreign flows into Nigeria have been relatively strong in 2020 so far Coronavirus fears risk hampering both oil and non-oil inflows Exchange rate should be stable until at least the end of H1-20, but further out, picture is bleak February 7, 2020/Cordros Report The wave of capital repatriation by foreign […]

February 7, 2020/United Capital Report Trading under the Africa Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) framework is slated to start in July 2020, even though regional developments in 2019 suggests that many African countries are unprepared to implement the commitments of the deal. The re-emergence of xenophobic attacks in South Africa […]

February 6, 2020/IMFBlog By Etibar Jafarov, Rodolfo Maino, and Marco Pani With the surge in public debt in the wake of the global financial crisis, financial repression—administrative restrictions on interest rates, credit allocation, capital movements, and other financial operations—has come back on the agenda. In our recent working paper, we argue […]