The World Economic Forum provides a platform for engaging the World’s top leaders on critical issues that shape the global economy each year. The goal is to improve the state of the world by encouraging collaboration that facilitates sharing of insights and innovations on navigating the future. This year, it is being held in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, from January 17-20, 2017. In today's session, a conversation[1] with the Nigerian Vice-President, Yemi Osinbajo gave an insi

The IMF World Economic Outlook was released on January 16, 2017. [1] In the Outlook, Nigeria and South Africa have been projected to experience economic growth in 2017 and 2018. The forecast for Nigeria was revised upwards from the October 2016 projections. This was largely connected with higher oil production resulting from improved security. Nigeria is now projected to grow at 0.8% in 2017 and 2.3% in 2018. This marks a 0.2 and 0.7 percentage points increase from the Octobe