OPINION/EDITORIAL

Headline Inflation Rate Expected to Reach New Heights in FY 2023

September 9, 2023/CSL Research Since February 2022, Nigeria’s consumer price index has stayed elevated due to a number of factors such as food shortages, increases in energy cost, multiple currency devaluations, trade restrictions and a few others. Recent policies such as the removal of fuel subsidies, the unification of the […]

Oil Markets Tighten On Constant Inventory Draws

September 8, 2023/Oilprice.com Michael Kern Oilprice.com While Saudi Arabia’s pledge to extend production cuts and Russia’s pledge to extend export cuts may have made headlines, it is the continued inventory draws in the U.S. that are tightening markets. Friday, September 8th, 2023 Whilst market sentiment was capped by weaker-than-expected macroeconomic […]

Harnessing GovTech to Tax Smarter and Spend Smarter

(Credit: Wirestock/iStock by Getty Images) September 7, 2023/IMFBlog By David Amaglobeli, Ruud de Mooij, and Mariano Moszoro Digitalization is a transformative force as powerful as the advent of the printing press in the 15th century or electricity in the 19th. Yet some governments have been slow to harness the potential of digital […]