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Unlike Nigeria, Kenya Agrees Thoroughgoing Reforms with IMF

Unlike Nigeria, Kenya Agrees Thoroughgoing Reforms with IMF

The cooperation with the IMF towards implementing a key policy change to bring down its unsustainable debt profile is a… Read More

5 years ago

IMF Chief Optimistic of Economic Recovery in 2021

Chief Economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Gita Gopinath, has forecast a return to growth in major economies in… Read More

5 years ago

Nigeria and the IMF: End of the Fulani Marriage?

“Nigeria’s $1.5 billon World Bank loan is a modified Fulani marriage; it has gotten a skinny plain bride for a… Read More

5 years ago

IMF Says Nigeria’s Tax Collection Amongst “Lowest in the World”

Nigeria’s government must improve revenue collection especially through its tax policy, which is currently among the lowest in the world,… Read More

5 years ago

Kenya May Lay Off Thousands of Civil Servants Due to IMF Loan Deal

Thousands of government workers in Kenya are on the brink of losing their jobs in a civil service restructuring involving… Read More

5 years ago

Egypt Reforms Paying Off as Cairo Moves Closer to Another $1.6bn IMF Loan While Nigeria’s World Bank Loan Stalls

Egypt continues to reap rewards from a raft of economic reforms it took on four years ago. Faced with the… Read More

5 years ago

Nigeria’s GDP: Nigerian Banks Set For 7.6% of Total Credit Going Bad by Year End

Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is likely to grow at less than 50 per cent the speed required by banks… Read More

5 years ago

IMF says Nigeria’s Economic Growth to Decline by 4.3% in 2020

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has revised Nigeria’s (negative) economic growth rate forecast for this year to -4.3 per cent.… Read More

5 years ago

Vice President Osinbajo Says Nigeria to Bid Farewell to Western Banks

The Nigerian government will look beyond Eurobonds because of the cost of servicing them and seek cheaper funds to fund… Read More

5 years ago

Osinbajo – Nigeria to Shun High Cost Foreign Loans

The Nigerian government will look beyond Eurobonds because of the cost of servicing them and seek cheaper funds to fund… Read More

5 years ago

Nigeria’s Pursuit of $1.5 billion World Bank Loan Could Just Be Needless – DPR

“The Department of Petroleum Resources should not be making public statements about monetary or fiscal policy, the decision to augment… Read More

5 years ago

Race In Economics: Economists and Policymakers Need a Wake-up Call to Root Out Racial Discrimination

"The field of economics has been far from immune from discrimination and racism. George Stigler, a 1982 Nobel laureate, argued… Read More

5 years ago