Solar rural electrification is 30% cheaper than cost of grid expansion
Our rural folks continue to live in darkness despite the abundance of sunlight. According to the World Bank Data Sheet, ...
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Oil’s Fall Is a Challenge for Gulf Economies, but Also an Opportunity
The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) economies have achieved a remarkable transformation over the past 30 years. Saudi Arabia and its ...
What Is Direct Investment?
Investors often seek profits from a long-term stake in a foreign operation Foreign investors can have myriad motivations for seeking ...
Electric Vehicles Could Soon Reduce Oil Demand By 13 Million Barrels Per Day
According to a new report from Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF), the rapid decline in the cost of building batteries ...
Four areas in which Africa can leapfrog the West
With emerging technologies, Africa no longer has to go through the process of stone age/iron age/industrial revolution to catch up ...
Barclays to exit Africa in ‘transatlantic’ makeover
Barclays Plc will sell its Africa business as part of a plan by new Chief Executive Jes Staley to simplify ...
5 Steps to improve microfinance regulation in Ghana
Microfinance in Ghana has come under much heat due to the operations of some microfinance institutions and their inability to ...
Could our future nurses and caregivers be robots?
Welcome your new job takers and caregivers. The coming decade will see societies transform as humans learn to live alongside ...
Want to earn more? Embrace compound interest
Interest on loans, on the yields on investments and deposits are of prime importance to everyone. Consumers and producers, individuals ...
The Effectiveness Of China’s Industrial Policy
Like all major economies of the world, strategic industrial policy is key and core to their development agenda. The case ...