October 17, 2024/CSL Research The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) recently released a special edition of its CBN Update, titled “Team Cardoso First 365 Days: Building the Foundation for a New Era.” By Saturday, 05 October 2024, exactly 365 days had passed since Mr. Cardoso’s confirmation as Governor of the […]

(Credit: iStock by Getty Images/winhose) October 16, 2024/IMFBGlog By Jorge Alvarez, Alberto Musso, Jean-Marc Natal, and Sebastian Wende The inflation surge over the past three years followed a unique disruption to the global economy. Pandemic lockdowns initially tilted demand away from services and toward goods. But this came at a time when […]

(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 […]