October 18, 2019/IMFBlog By Davide Furceri, Jonathan D. Ostry, and Chris Papageorgiou Economic reforms are often painful in the short term and hence unpopular, but does that mean reform-minded leaders always pay a price at the ballot box? Not necessarily, we learned in our analysis of structural reforms and election […]

October 17, 2019/InvestmentOne Report Please click to download our September 2019 Inflation Update  ·         The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) released the inflation  report for the month of September 2019 which revealed that there was an increase in inflation rates to 11.24% y/y from 11.02% y/y, after three months of […]

October 16, 2019/IMFBlog By Tobias Adrian and Fabio Natalucci The pace of global economic activity remains weak, and financial markets expect rates to stay lower for longer than anticipated in early 2019. Financial conditions have eased even more, helping contain downside risks and support the global economy in the near […]