by Sam Wilkin | Apr 28, 2014 | Blog
Nigeria recently announced a statistical revision that at a stroke nearly doubled the size of the country’s economy. The International Monetary Fund, after careful review, endorsed the revised estimate as accurate. That said, there was some statistical trickery...
by Sam Wilkin | Apr 14, 2014 | Blog
Ahead of US-EU-Russia talks on the future of Ukraine on Thursday, pro-Russian protesters – possibly assisted by Russian special forces – have escalated their disruptions in Eastern Ukraine beyond Crimea. While media coverage is understandably alarmist, these...
by Sam Wilkin | Apr 1, 2014 | Blog
I tend to be bullish on Europe – partly as a corrective to the mass of commentators who too early wrote off the crisis in the Eurozone as irresolvable. This optimism has been justified by the recent run-up in European equities, with developed European countries...