March 21, 2016/iMFdirect By Cheng Hoon Lim Canada’s housing market is sizzling hot and the Bank of Canada has a monetary policy dilemma: increase interest rates to cool the housing market would hurt borrowers and the economy; keep interest rates low adds fuel to the borrowing that led to the […]
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Financial Inclusion: Heritage Bank ED Says Financial Literacy Linked to Economic Growth
By InvestAdvocate Lagos (INVESTADVOCATE)-Financial literacy has been described as a strong catalyst to financial inclusion and wealth creation that will aid the nation’s economic growth, Mary Akpobome, executive director (ED), Heritage Bank Limited said in her opening remarks, at the Financial Literacy Day Programme organised by the bank at the […]
Increased Inter-agency Collaboration to Improve Data for Debt, Fiscal Risks Analysis-TFFS
March 18, 2016/IMF The Task Force on Finance Statistics (TFFS) convened in Washington, DC on March 17-18, 2016 to discuss progress on work to increase the availability and quality of external and public sector debt data. The meeting was hosted by the IMF, and brought together representatives from the Bank […]
