July 6, 2023/CSL Research In its monthly oil market report for June 2023, the Organisation of Petroleum Export Countries (OPEC) estimates that global oil demand will settle at 101.91 million barrels per day (mbpd) at the end of 2023 implying a 2.3% y/y growth in demand from 99.6mbpd in FY2022, […]
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Seychelles Pioneers Novel Financing Instruments and Taps IMF Climate Facility
Photo Credit: Diamond Dogs/Getty Images IMF COUNTRY FOCUS July 5, 2023/IMF Seychelles is successfully balancing conservation and economic development by tapping innovative financing instruments. The East African island nation relies largely on tourism and fishing for revenue and was the first country to issue a blue bond and to designate […]
Crypto Poses Significant Tax Problems—and They Could Get Worse
(Credit: Da-kuk/iStock by Getty Images) July 5, 2023/IMFBlog By Katherine Baer, Ruud de Mooij, Shafik Hebous, and Michael Keen Crypto assets that can be used as instruments of payment have proliferated into more than 10,000 variants since the 2009 debut of Bitcoin, the first and still the largest. The bewildering speed with which […]
