(Credit: IMF Photo/rogeranis.photo) October 16, 2024/IMFBlog By Silvia Albrizio, Bertrand Gruss, and Yu Shi The global economy is stuck in a low-growth gear, largely because of aging populations, weak business investment, and structural frictions that prevent capital and labor from flowing to where it can be most productive. As demographic pressures […]
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September-2024 Inflation Note: Headline Inflation Trends Slightly Higher
October 16, 2024/United Capital Research Extracts from Septr-2024 Consumer Price Index (CPI) report released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) revealed that the Nigeria’s headline inflation printed at 32.70% on a year-on-year (y/y) basis, indicating a 54bps climb from 32.15% y/y recorded in Aug-2024. On a month-on-month viewpoint, a […]
How High Economic Uncertainty May Threaten Global Financial Stability
(Credit: IMF Photo/Tuane Fernandes) October 16, 2024/IMFBlog By Mario Catalán, Andrea Deghi, and Mahvash S. Qureshi Uncertainty is not as easily measured as traditional indicators like growth or inflation, but economists have built some reliable proxies. One of the best-known gauges is the Economic Policy Uncertainty Index, which tallies how many news […]
