March 2, 2022/IMFBlog (ART: PETER REYNOLDS) By Gita Bhatt Nearly a century ago, Joseph Schumpeter wrote, “The spirit of a people, its cultural level, its social structure…all this and more is written in its fiscal history…. The public finances are one of the best starting points for an investigation of society.” […]

March 2, 2022/United Capital Research Last week, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) released its FY-2021 GDP report with the economy recording its strongest growth since 2014. The economy expanded 3.4% y/y, faster than population growth estimate of 2.7%, for the first time in five years. However, the average Nigerian […]

March 2, 2022/CSL Research The unrelenting rise in prices of food staples keeps pushing many households below the poverty line. According to the selected food price watch data for January 2022 released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), major consumer staples showed significant increases year on year and monthly. […]