The International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently released the April edition of its flagship report ‘World Economic Outlook (WEO)’ titled ‘Managing divergent recoveries’, where it revised upward its earlier projection for…
What is the best way for an economic system to run? No clear cut answer has been found until now. The usual categorisation of economic systems into “capitalist”, “socialist” or…
In its ‘World Economic Outlook, October 2023’ Report, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said that ‘The global recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine remains slow…
The oil price collapse that took US crude prices sub-zero for the first time in history may turn out to be a silver lining for the world economy, possibly offering…
In 2020, our world went through a pandemic and global changes, both on a scale unseen in a century. It was truly an extraordinary year for both China and the…
“I think the patient is stabilised,” then US president Barack Obama declared after G20 powers prescribed unprecedented remedies to steady the crisis-wracked world economy just over a decade ago. Today,…
Who runs the world? It might soon be women as a crop of female economists join IMF chief Christine Lagarde in top positions at major financial bodies. As the International…
The leaders of the G-20 countries ended their London meeting agreeing on a set of measures which, if implemented, would set a new era of international cooperation. The leaders pledged…
If you visit the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya, you will come across Kibera, one of the largest slum dwellings in the world. Housing approximately 250,000 people across an area of…
The overarching economic strategy of the incumbent government is not quite focused on achieving macroeconomic stability, though that is certainly a stated objective, or to implement pro-growth policies — pledged…
