OPINION/EDITORIAL

Nigerian Banking Sector 2023 Mid-Year Outlook – Unearthing Potential Pass through of Policy Rejigs

July 10, 2023/Cardinalstone H1’23 witnessed numerous twists critical to the banking sector outlook. These twists included the abolition of FX market segmentation, the entrenchment of a 2-way quote system premised on the willing buyer-seller mode and plans to normalise the use of the CRR as a monetary policy tool. The […]

Economic Report: The Impact of Excise Duties Suspension on the Telecommunication Sector

July 10, 2023/Futureview Financial Services Nigeria’s heavy reliance on oil revenues is widely known, and there is an urgent need to reduce this dependency by exploring alternative sources of income to diversify the economy. To address this, the Nigerian government has actively worked on increasing taxation in non-oil sectors in […]

How to Accelerate Economic Growth in the Caucasus and Central Asia

Photo Credit: DavorLovincic/iStock by Getty Images IMF COUNTRY FOCUS July 10, 2023/IMF Since independence in the early 1990s, income levels and living standards in the Caucasus and Central Asia (CCA) have improved but remain well below the levels of emerging Europe. The state continues to play a dominant role in […]