OPINION/EDITORIAL

The Oil Price Rally Has Stalled… For Now

April 12, 2024/Oilprice.com Michael Kern Editor, Oilprice.com The recent oil price rally was held back this week by rising inventories and concerns that the Fed may postpone its interest rate cuts, but geopolitical risks could yet spark another upward movement. Friday, April 12th 2024 Inventory builds in the US, red-hot inflation […]

Industrial Policy is Back But the Bar to Get it Right Is High

(Credit: DINphotogallery/iStock by Getty Images) April 12, 2024/IMFBlog By Anna Ilyina, Ceyla Pazarbasioglu, Michele Ruta Governments have traditionally used targeted interventions known as industrial policy to make domestic producers more competitive or promote growth in selected industries. While some developing countries continued to use it, industrial policy fell out of favor across most […]

Hydrochlorofluorocarbons Phase-Out Management Plan

April 12, 2024/CSL Research Iziaq Adekunle Salako, the Minister of State for the Federal Ministry of Environment, recently announced that Nigeria has initiated the implementation of its Hydrochlorofluorocarbons Phase-out Management Plan (HPMP) project. The goal is to eliminate the country’s 2010 baseline consumption of 344.9 tonnes of Hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs) by […]