\ December 6, 2019/OilPrice.com Oil prices rose on Friday morning, fueled by optimism about the new OPEC+ deal and the Saudi promise to, once again, overcomply with their production quota. Friday, December 6th, 2019 Oil jumped because of news from Vienna. OPEC+ agreed to cut 500,000 bpd more than the […]

December 5, 2019/IMFBlog By Christian Bogmans, Akito Matsumoto, and Andrea Pescatori After good progress in the beginning of the decade, global carbon emissions have started to pick up again. This recent trend sets the world on a dangerous path: to slow the pace of climate change, carbon emissions need to […]

December 4, 2019/AfDB by Hanan Morsy “There is no greater asset to Africa than its youth,” a statement that has been repeatedly proclaimed, but the continent still has a long way to go. Despite robust economic growth over the past two decades, a 1 percent increase in growth between 2000–14 […]