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On Thursday, Banco de Mexico (Banxico) reduced interest rates by 50 basis points from 9% to 8.50% on an unanimous vote.
The Reserve Bank of Malawi (RBM) has designed what it calls a homegrown macroeconomic framework to transition from the lapse ...
The government has reached a staff-level agreement with the International Monetary Fund for the fourth and fifth tranche of ...
An International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission, led by Mr. Jean-Guillaume Poulain, met with the Iraqi authorities in Amman and Baghdad during May 4–13 to conduct the 2025 Article IV consultation. The fo ...
Fed Vice Chair, Philip Jefferson, underlines why analysts must not read too much into the Q1 US-GDP contraction ...
The PUNCH earlier reported that the CBN’s earnings from the Federal Government’s overdraft facility declined from N1.6tn in 2023 to N3.1bn in 2024. Also notable was a major increase in the CBN’s ...
The IMF team had productive discussions with the Zambian authorities on economic performance and policies underpinning the Fifth Review under the IMF Extended Credit Facility (ECF) arrangement.
Fed officials this year began a periodic review of the central bank’s longer-run strategy — or framework — for implementing ...
Explore Nigeria’s inflation forecast with a projected rate of 22.1 per cent in 2025. Learn about the economic implications.
Yet, for consumers, the inflationary pressures are there for all to see. According to a survey by this publication, the price ...
The following is the first of a two-part series. On May 8, 2025, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) released a concluding ...