June 18, 2019/IMFBlog By Jason Harris, Abdelhak Senhadji, and Alexander F. Tieman Our new data on government assets released today shows that when governments know what they own, they can make better use of the assets for the well-being of all their citizens.  We make these data free and publicly […]

June 18, 2019/IMFBlog By Poul Thomsen As we approach the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the former socialist countries of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe (CESEE) have made tremendous progress in becoming full-fledged market economies and raising income levels. Large-scale privatization in the 1990s was a […]

Culled—Proshare June 17, 2019 By FBNQuest Research                                                                                        A burst of commentary on the CBN’s fx regime on the newswires last week warrants a re-examination of the underlying issues. While in reality little, if anything, has changed, it is worthwhile restating our house view. There has been a convergence of rates […]