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 […]

Culled—Proshare December 3, 2019/Meristem   Cryptocurrency has generated a lot of buzz in recent times, but what exactly are they? What is their value proposition as a medium of exchange? What risk does their adoption pose to the current financial system and can they, someday, replace traditional fiat money? It […]