By fast-tracking the development of recent gas discoveries, accelerating exploration activities and maximizing gas exploitation, South Africa has an opportunity to reduce blackouts across the country. Image Credit: AEC July 20, 2022/AEC While South Africa’s energy crisis continues to worsen with state utility Eskom intensifying the implementation of load shedding; […]
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H2 2022 Outlook: Economic Recovery to Slow in H2
July 19, 2022/CSL Research Except for our outlook on inflation, our main views on the macroeconomy from the start of the year have played out. In our 2022 outlook, we argued that the risk of FX depreciation will likely persist due to capital reversal from emerging markets (EMs) and frontier […]
How a Russian Natural Gas Cutoff Could Weigh on Europe’s Economies
(Image: MikeMareen/iStock by Getty Images) July 19, 2022/IMFBlog By Mark Flanagan, Alfred Kammer, Andrea Pescatori and Martin Stuermer The partial shutoff of gas deliveries is already affecting European growth, and a full shutdown could be substantially more severe. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has further darkened the global growth outlook, with […]
