Photo Credit: Wikipedia 6/7/2017/Fitch Ratings Asian economies are better equipped to weather external shocks and financial pressures owing to buffers built and reforms undertaken in the wake of the Asian Financial Crisis, which began twenty years ago this week, says Fitch Ratings. The shift from fixed to more flexible exchange […]
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Fitch: Frontier Markets Growth Slowed in 2016 but Trade Now Picking Up
July 3, 2017/Fitch Ratings Fitch Ratings-London-03 July 2017: GDP growth in ‘frontier’ emerging markets slowed further in 2016 as Nigeria, Ecuador, Belarus and Angola saw outright declines in GDP. However, ‘frontier’ market (FM) countries are now starting to see an improvement in trade growth, according to Fitch Ratings’ latest ‘Frontier […]
Akinwumi Adesina and the World Food Prize
June 30, 2017 ByEbere ECHENDU On Monday, 26th of June, 2017, Nigeria’s former Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, now the President of African Development Bank, Dr. AkinwumiAdesina, was announced as the winner of the 2017 World Food Prize, at a ceremony at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, in Washington D.C. The World […]
