Africa
World Bank Says Days of Telling Africa What to Do Are Over
*Lender trying to find win-win situations in financing *G20 discussed the need to rethink development finance The days of debt...
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How Trump’s foreign policy may impact Africa’s economic position
I was speaking with Charles Hecker of Control Risks about Control Risk’s RiskMap2017 which flagged the Trump administration as the...
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For African countries, innovation must trump our focus on trade
Africa is overwhelmingly the poorest region in the world. In 2015, after more than a decade of the “Africa Rising”...
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How to Encourage Innovation in Africa
How is innovation in Africa different from innovation in Silicon Valley? And how can innovation in Africa be encouraged? Dan...
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The Five Keys to a More Prosperous Africa
As president of the African Development Bank, Akinwumi Adesina has a vision of how the bank can help the continent...
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Human Capital – Africa’s missing piece of the puzzle part1
There has been no continent whose definition in itself has been as paradoxical as Africa. A continent with an abundance...
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Africa’s top brands are losing out at home to international rivals as an economic downturn bites
In 2016, low commodity and oil prices subdued the growth of African economies to their lowest levels in over two...
Read moreTowards the Great African Renaissance.
Post-independence, Africa’s failure at self-sufficiency and economic development has been one major issue the world has tried incessantly without success...
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The new face of farming: youth making agribusiness ‘cool’
Run a quick Google search on African women making it in business, and you will rarely find a young woman...
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Startups raised more money in Africa than we thought during 2016
It looks like 2016 was a better year than previously imagined for African startups. An earlier report by Disrupt Africa...
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