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Lagos, Nigeria – Last Friday Nigeria’s new President Bola Tinubu suspended the country’s Central Bank Governor Godwin Emefiele. On Saturday, Nigeria’s secret police confirmed the erstwhile top banker has been arrested …
How Emefiele, Nigeria’s powerful central bank chief lost his seat Read More
Solomon Owa’s fingers work quickly as he speaks over the hum of his sewing machine. That’s because the hum of his sewing machine might stop at any moment. “In a …
Africa’s Richest City Is Crumbling Under Chaos and Corruption Read More
Blair Fix puts interest rates to the test in the treatment of inflation and raises a laugh. Advances in science almost invariably arise from questioning received wisdom — taking ideas …
Fighting inflation with flat-earth monetary policy Read More
India’s goal of achieving net zero emissions by 2070 raises important questions for policymakers regarding potential risks to the financial system and necessary policy reforms. These concerns are particularly relevant …
India’s central bank sets a vision for a net-zero economy Read More
On May 16, frustrated with an unexpected internet shutdown in Pakistan, Karachi-based app developer Wajahat Karim posted a poll on LinkedIn. The 32-year-old asked his connections if they wanted to move …
Pakistan’s 4-day internet shutdown was the final straw for its tech workers Read More
Labour went cap-in-hand to two scandal-hit consultancy firms that its own shadow chancellor said should be broken up, openDemocracy can reveal. The party has quietly accepted more than £230,000 worth …
Revealed: Labour taking free staff from scandal-hit consulting firms Read More
Prices that double every year, the Turkish lira at record lows, the Central Bank’s foreign exchange reserves in negative for the first time in 21 years, a tangle of regulations …
Straightening Turkey’s economy: The main challenge of Erdogan’s new term Read More
Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo on Monday (22 May) criticised the idea of not growing the economy for environmental reasons, joining calls to stop environmental and health-related regulation to …
Belgium’s De Croo slams degrowth, joins call for a regulatory break Read More
The year 2023 coincided with the 50th anniversary of India’s groundbreaking Project Tiger, an innovative programme designed to rescue the country’s iconic big cat from the precipice of extinction. In …
Tiger protection in India also saved 1 million tonnes of carbon emissions – new study Read More
Ilorin, Nigeria – On Monday, as Nigeria’s president-elect Bola Tinbu is sworn into office, Olusegun Badmus will be one of several million people watching. But for the 57-year-old bus driver …
Nigerians look to president-elect Tinubu for economic turnaround Read More