February 24, 2020/Coronation Report Since last July the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has pursued non-conventional monetary policies (see Coronation Research, Year Ahead 2020, 16 January) which have seen credit grow and domestic risk-free rates fall well below the level of inflation. There are risks the Naira/US dollar exchange rate […]

February 24, 2020/Cordros Report Nigeria’s economic growth momentum remained broadly positive in Q4-2019, as GDP grew by 2.55% y/y (vs. 2.28% y/y in Q3-19), the highest quarterly figure since Q3-2015. For 2019FY, economic activities expanded by 2.27% y/y (vs. 1.19% y/y in 2018FY). According to the breakdowns provided, while the […]

February 24, 2020/IMFBlog By Dmitry Plotnikov Central America remains one of the world’s most violent regions, where about 4.5 percent of the world’s homicides occur. The region has only about 0.5 percent of the world’s population. But thanks mainly to increased security efforts by the region’s governments, homicide rates are […]