November 7, 2022/CSL Research The Nigerian 2022 fiscal budget has continued to suffer setbacks from crude oil production shortfalls as production contracted further to an all-time low of 0.938mbpd (1.14mbpd including condensate) in September 2022. Based on data from the National Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC), crude oil production fell […]

Image Credit: IMFBlog Climate Change Early rollout of climate-mitigation strategies will help countries meet their Paris Agreement commitments and smooth the low-carbon transition November 6, 2022/IMFBlog Gareth Anderson, Johad Azour, Ling Zhu Nearly all 32 countries in the Middle East and Central Asia have pledged to contain greenhouse gas emissions […]

Credit: sidorovstock/Adobe Stock November 4, 2022/IMFBlog Kristalina Georgieva The devastation and destruction of climate change will only worsen if we fail to act now Just this year we’ve seen the increasingly devastating effects of climate change—human tragedy and economic upheaval with typhoons in Bangladesh, unprecedented floods in Pakistan, heatwaves in […]