OPINION/EDITORIAL

A Rising Tide Lifts All Boat – H1 2019 Review And H2 Outlook

Culled—Proshare August 15, 2019/Greenwich In the first half of the year 2019, the Nigerian economy stabilised, at a growth rate of 2.01%, figures from the most recently released quarterly GDP estimates from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) show. The capital outflow last year, sprung on to 2019, as the […]

Fuel for Thought: Ditch the Subsidies

August 14, 2019/IMFBlog By IMFBlog Pensions, education, healthcare, better infrastructure, technology, and climate change: fiscal policymakers have their work cut out for them on many fronts.  Whether you live in a rapidly aging advanced economy,  or a low-income or emerging market economy with a young, booming population, all these issues […]

Oil Soars As The U.S. Delays Trade War Tariffs

August 13, 2019/OilPrice.com Chart of the Week   –    Australia is set to surpass Qatar as the largest exporter of LNG in the world. –    Australia’s LNG export capacity increased from roughly 2.6 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) in 2011 to more than 11.4 Bcf/d this year.   –   […]