IMF
26 Jan
A sustainable economic growth rate that could push up the output by 3.1 per cent is possible this year. But it will require a “balancing ambitious fiscal reforms”, PwC has noted in its Nigeria Economic Outlook 2024 released yesterday.
16 Jan
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said almost 40 per cent of jobs globally will be influenced by artificial intelligence (AI), saying advanced economies are expected to experience a higher impact compared to emerging markets and low-income countries.
15 Jan
The year ahead will be "very tough" for fiscal policy -- especially for countries holding elections -- the IMF chief told AFP before departing for the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland
12 Jan
The IMF's executive board approved an immediate disbursement of around $700 million for Pakistan on Thursday as part of a program to support the cash-strapped South Asian country through an economic crisis.
9 Jan
While the International Monetary Fund (IMF) debt sustainability analysis as of February 2021 shows that the majority of countries in West Africa have remained in moderate debt distress, a further analysis indicates that debt accumulation prior to the outbreak of COVID-19 outpaces the ability of growth performance to support debt servicing.
8 Jan
In 2024, President Bola Tinubu’s International Monetary Fund (IMF) recommended fiscal and monetary policies will intensify the hunger in the land. After the N28 trillion padded 2024 budget was signed by Tinubu, the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy
21 Dec
Nigeria’s public debt hit N87.91 trillion at the end of the third quarter of 2023, following a marginal increase from the N87.38 trillion it was in the second quarter.
18 Dec
Chairman, Board of Trustees (BOT) of the Centre for Transparency Advocacy, Dr Chima Amadi, has said economic remedies from International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank cannot revive Nigeria’s economy.
15 Dec
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) on Friday strongly condemned the World Bank’s recommendation to the Federal Government to increase the price of a litre of fuel from N600 to N750. NLC in a statement said the call by the World Bank's recommendation is a threat to Nigeria's economy as a whole. "We vehemently reject the…
13 Dec
The IMF announced Tuesday it has authorised the release of close to $700 million for Bangladesh after concluding it was making progress on programmes aimed at preserving macroeconomic stability. The International Monetary Fund said in a statement that it had concluded the first review of two loan programmes, making around $690 million available to the…
25 Nov
Argentina's president-elect Javier Milei and IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva had a first meeting via video call on Friday, in which they discussed the country's economic crisis.
25 Oct
Action Aid Country Directors have called on the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank to stop imposing a neo-colonial economic model, austerity policies and constraints to public sector wage bills but should instead support debt ....