OPINION/EDITORIAL

How Mauritania Can Reduce the Impact of Climate Disasters on its Economy

Photo Credit: Adobe Stock: hamid chabbi/EyeEm IMF COUNTRY FOCUS February 14, 2023/IMFBlog By Anta Ndoye, Jarin Tasnim Nashin, Onur Ozlu and Eric M. Pondi Improving access to healthcare and electricity can go a long way toward reducing the costs to growth from climate disasters Climate-related natural disasters are becoming more frequent and severe […]

Achieving a Frictionless Customer Experience in Fintech

Modern customers expect fintechs to focus as much on the experience they provide as the products and services being offered February 14, 2023/Mukuru By Lelen Udayan, head of customer experience at Mukuru By definition, a truly frictionless customer experience (CX) is unobtainable even though it is the end state every […]

Currency Redesign Update: CBN Says Circulation Dips -4.81% in December’22

February 14, 2023/CSL Research Money Supply statistics from the CBN as of December 2022 showed that currency in circulation decreased month-on-month by 4.81% to N3.01trn from N3.16trn as of November 2022. Similarly, currency outside banks declined month-on-month by 2.98% to N2.57trn (representing 85.22% of currency in circulation) as of December […]