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The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) recently released data about Nigeria’s inflation level and worsening poverty, confirming the warning from the Bretton Woods Institutions about the country’s inflation problem, citing it as a key driver for the rising number of poor people in the country.

Data on the rate of unemployment in Nigeria will no longer be released scantly and sporadically, but well aggregated and quarterly. This is according to

This week's links include Angrist vs Imbens on the utility of machine learning in economics, new estimates of poverty trends in Nigeria, evidence on entrepreneurship and consulting, and more...

Download logoSluggish growth, low human capital, labor market weaknesses, and exposure to shocks are holding Nigeria’s poverty reduction back says a new

A huge set of links to catch up on several weeks of no links