June 9, 2020/IOSCO The Board re-elected Ashley Alder, CEO of SFC Hong Kong, as its Chair and Jean-Paul Servais, Chairman of FSMA Belgium, as a Vice Chair. It also elected Heath P. Tarbert, Chairman of the US CFTC, as a new Vice Chair. They join Obaid Al Zaabi, CEO of […]
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Ethiopia: AfDB gives $1.2 million for Ethiopia-Sudan railway study
The two-year, comprehensive feasibility study will assess the proposed project’s technical, economic, environmental and social viability June 9, 2020/AfDB The African Development Bank’s (www.AfDB.org) Board of Directors has approved a $1.2 million grant to Ethiopia’s government to finance a feasibility study for construction of a standard-gauge railway (SGR) link between […]
Shocks, and More Domestic Shocks from COVID-19 – FBNQuest
Culled—Proshare June 8, 2020 by FBNQuest Research We are indebted to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) for its recent poll to assess the impact of COVID-19 on the population. The bureau’s telephone coverage of the same 1,950 households it contacted in 2018/19 within its general household survey does not […]
