This paper assesses the stance of monetary policy in eleven Sub-Saharan African (SSA) emerging and frontier market economies. We estimate neutral real interest rates using a range of methodologies, ...

This paper documents five empirical facts about the role of strategic complementarities in firms’ price-setting behavior, using administrative data from Chilean firms. (1) Strategic complementarities ...

AI, China, imperialism and multi-polarity: economist Michael Roberts reports on the 18th Congress of the World Association of ...

The High Court in Nairobi has temporarily suspended the sale of the Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC) in a major blow to the government's privatisation plan.

Investing.com -- S&P Global Ratings raised Lebanon’s long-term local currency credit rating to ’CCC’ from ’CC’ on Thursday, while maintaining a stable outlook and affirming its foreign currency rating ...

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At the November 2024 elections, the NPP won a supermajority. The party secured 159 seats in the 225-member Parliament. ..

The departing British Empire left behind a hollow shell: 75% of the population trapped in subsistence farming, literacy at a dismal 17%, and a per capita income of just ₹240. Today, that broken nation ...

Tom Cruise declined a Kennedy Center Honor from President Donald Trump due to scheduling conflicts with his film projects, a ...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has raised serious concerns over Pakistan's failure to stop money laundering schemes effectively. In a draft report, the IMF pointed out that Pakistan's ...

Veteran journalist, Reuben Abati, has stated that Nigerians should not expect Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to tell President Bola ...

The correlation between the availability of affordable housing and fluctuation in birth rates dates back to the 1930s, ...