Opinions

Digitalization has in the past few years enabled developing countries in particular to leapfrog on financial inclusion. Countries like Kenya, Ghana, Rwanda and Tanzania have...

After reading through the 64-page report of the Special Prosecutor on the corruption and anti-corruption assessment of the Agyapa Royalties Agreements last night, I was...

The pandemic-induced economic crisis is set to leave deep scars. Human capital erosion from prolonged high unemployment and school closures, value destruction from bankruptcies, and...

The COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing economic crisis have required emergency fiscal measures as revenues have dried up. Many countries in the Middle East and...

Education, health, and poverty indicators in the Middle East and Central Asia have improved substantially over the past two decades. The rate of progress, however,...

There has been solid performance at Jubilee and TEN fields so far this year, despite multiple headwinds. Jubilee and TEN are two of Ghana's largest offshore...

New steps are needed to improve sovereign debt workouts The COVID-19 pandemic has greatly lengthened the list of developing and emerging market economies in debt...

The IMF welcomed the Principality of Andorra as its 190th member in October this year. Andorra—a microstate situated between France and Spain—joined the IMF when...

The statistics that hover uncertainty around Africa are not ones that should make the continent proud. The World Bank has estimated that Africa could potentially...

Emerging markets and developing economies grew consistently in the two decades before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, allowing for much-needed gains in poverty reduction and life...