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 […]
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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 […]
Smaller Economies in Latin America and Caribbean Face a Bigger Inflation Challenge
Image Credit: IMF IMF COUNTRY FOCUS September 19, 2022/IMF By Emine Boz, Ilan Goldfajn, Jaime Guajardo, and Metodij Hadzi-Vaskov As inflation continues to be elevated across Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), the impact on real incomes and purchasing power remains a key challenge, especially for the most vulnerable. We looked into […]
