Discover how exchange rates influence the economy, affecting job markets, inflation, and costs of goods. Learn about their ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Kyle Peterson and Dan Henninger. Images: CNP/Zuma Press/Shutterstock/ Composite: Mark Kelly Nobel economics laureate Robert ...

The Economic Issues series was inaugurated in September 1996. Its aim is to make some of the economic research being produced in the International Monetary Fund on topical issues accessible to a broad ...

Exchange rates play a crucial role in the global economy, influencing trade, investment, and economic stability. Understanding the various measurements and regimes of exchange rates is essential for ...

The International Monetary Fund has classified India’s exchange rate regime as a ‘crawl-like’ arrangement. This means the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is allowing a measured flexibility in the forex ...

Many economists argue that a flexible exchange rate regime is preferable to a fixed exchange rate regime because it helps to insulate the domestic economy from adverse external shocks. For example, ...

This paper provides new evidence on the exchange rate passthrough to domestic inflation in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) using both bilateral US dollar exchange rate and the nominal effective exchange rate ...

As Nigeria closes the chapter on 2025, CBN emerges as the institution that quietly rebuilt foundations of the country’s ...

Bangladesh’s central bank introduced a crawling peg system for the local currency in efforts to keep the taka stable and raised its key interest rate to tame inflationary pressures. The central bank ...

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) yesterday unified all exchange rates within the economy into the Investors and Exporters (I&E) window. In a circular to authorised dealers signed by CBN Director, ...