Credit: Michael Discenza/Unsplash The outlook has brightened, but important longer-term challenges remain—including for China’s economy, the region’s largest. February 20, 2023/IMFBlog Krishna Srinivasan , Thomas Helbling, Shanaka J. Peiris The economic headwinds that faced Asia and the Pacific last year have started to fade. Global financial conditions have eased, food […]

Image Credit: AEC By NJ Ayuk, Chairman, African Energy Chamber It would be difficult to exaggerate the value that carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) technology offers Africa’s oil and gas industry. With oil and gas-producing countries facing tremendous pressure to transition to green energy sources and leave their petroleum […]

February 20, 2023/FBNQuest Research The Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) most recent data on money and credit shows that domestic credit to the private sector increased by 19.7% y/y in Dec ’22. The strong growth follows a 17.5% y/y increase in private sector credit extension (PSCE) the previous month. The […]