OPINION/EDITORIAL

Fuel Subsidy Removal and the Transport Sector

November 14, 2023/CSL Research Based on data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), The transportation and storage sector, which accounts for 0.89% of the country’s GDP, declined by 50.64% in Q2 2023, the largest decline among all sectors. The NBS attributed this to the sharp fall in the road […]

Oil Companies Still Have Vital Role to Play in African Energy

November 14, 2023/AEC  By NJ Ayuk These companies are validating the African Energy Chamber’s (AEC’s) long-held assertion that the African continent represents the next frontier for energy exploration and production Behind every discovery, final investment decision (FID), and first oil announcement in our continent are companies of all sizes, advancing […]

Japan’s Economy Would Gain With More Women in Science and Technology

Photo Credit: peeterv/iStock by Getty Images November 13, 2023/IMFBlog Japan has one of the oldest populations globally, with its working-age population shrinking since the late 1990s. Despite that, Japan achieved impressive per capita gross domestic product growth, trailing only the United States, from 2012 to 2019 during “Abenomics”—the combination of […]