Africa’s largest economy is in crisis, and unrest is growing.
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Nigeria’s Central Bank didn’t have an adoption strategy for its digital currency. It was a missed opportunity.
Contrary to most economists, President Erdoğan has long believed that raising interest rates increases inflation.
It’s two years since Turkey’s last near-death experience, and the same short-term fixes are unlikely to work again.
Most countries manipulate their currencies – at least a little – but at the moment that’s not the real reason they are undervalued relative to the dollar.
The US and China have an interdependent economic relationship. If this unravels it will have global ramifications.
Australia has more to fear than most countries from a global trade and currency war. All eyes will be on the Reserve Bank governor Friday as he attempts to outline what might happen.
President Trump’s decision to slap tariffs on US$300 billion of China’s exports has set up a currency war that has engulfed Australia.
Venezuela’s hyperinflation has been caused by an inept public policy of printing more money and private individuals making the most of differences between official and unofficial exchange rates.
When an elected leader turns autocratic, the economy tends to suffer. That’s because, in a functioning democracy, economic policy is made jointly, with lawmakers playing a key role.
Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration is struggling to overcome the national economic destruction wreaked on Zimbabwe over two decades under Robert Mugabe.
A number of emerging markets are struggling but this doesn’t mean they are totally related.
It is contagious populist ideology more than financial contagion that should scare us right now.
President Erdoğan is accusing the West of striving to destabilise Turkey.
The London Interbank Offered Rates is one of the world’s key financial tools, but the 2008 rigging scandal has led to calls for its being phased out. Can we find better ways of building the LIBOR rate?
The treasury secretary said a weak dollar would be ‘good’ for the U.S. Here’s why he’s wrong.
US accusations of German currency manipulation do not appear to be motivated by economics.
The effects of a sovereign credit rating downgrade would be painful for all South Africans.
Negative interest rates are not the weapon some central bankers had hoped they would be.
China’s interventions to cheapen its currency relative to others will hurt US imports in the short term, but the country’s surging “mainstream” will easily offset the impact.
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Professor and Head, School of Business, Monash University Malaysia
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