September 20, 2022/Cordros Report Again, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is faced with the decision of holding or hiking the Monetary Policy Rate (MPR) further at a time global central banks are marching on with their interest rate hiking cycle despite the increasing […]
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Nigeria’s Ballooning Public Debt Stock at N42.85Tn in June 2022
September 20, 2022/CSL Research The Debt Management Office (DMO) in its latest debt profile released stated that Nigeria’s total public debt stock increased to N42.85tn in the second quarter of the year from N41.60tn in the first quarter of 2022 and N39.56tn as of December 2021. The public debt stock […]
Dominant Employers May Add To Unemployment In Rural US As Fed Raises Rates
Credit: PapaBear/iStock by Getty Images September 19, 2022/IMFBlog Employers with labor market power are more likely to fire workers as rates rise because they can more easily hire back when the Fed cuts rates again. Anastasia Burya, Rui C. Mano, Yannick Timmer, Anke Weber Some employers can attract a large […]
