March 26, 2019/IMFBlog By IMFBlog Young people face tough labor markets and job shortages in countries all over the world. For example, about 20 percent of 15- to 24-year-olds in the average emerging market and developing economy are neither in work nor in school—this group includes countries such as Brazil, Ghana, […]
OPINION/EDITORIAL
First Bank: Still Standing Gidigba 125 Years After
March 26, 2019 By Alex Otti This week marks the celebration of the 125th anniversary of the existence of the First Bank franchise in Nigeria. This stands the bank out as one of the earliest institutions established in West Africa, and obviously, one of the handful still in existence today. […]
Monetary Policy: Currency Arguments to Dominate HOLD Justification
March 26, 2019/Cordros Report With its two-day policy meeting set to conclude today, the monetary policy committee (MPC) clearly faces a somewhat different global and domestic macroeconomic milieu relative to its last policy meeting in January. The remarkably patchy global growth outlook has forced a number of central banks to […]
