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One year after the AU’s digital transformation strategy, the World Bank launched the All Africa Digital Economy Moonshot. This initiative aims to “digitally connect every individual, business ...
Africa’s creative economy may be small by global standards, but it is thriving, prompting renewed efforts to draw investment. Netflix invested nearly $200 million in key African markets between ...
Treating Afreximbank and the Trade and Development Bank as commercial creditors would reduce their capacity to finance ...
In Africa, internet is cheapest in Ghana at $0.61, followed by Somalia, Nigeria, Tanzania, Sudan, Eswatini, Kenya and Mauritius — where 1GB of mobile data costs less than a dollar.
The North-West University (NWU) Business School Policy Uncertainty Index (PUI) for 4Q 2024 quotes a recent Business Day article on 2024 as “a momentous year of shakeups and more uncertainty". SA’s ...
IMF Director of the African Department Abebe Aemro Selassie speech emphasizes the current economic challenges faced by African countries, including a financing squeeze, the impact of the COVID-19 ...
Africa’s real gross domestic product (GDP) growth is likely to decelerate to 4.1% in 2022, reflecting the ebbing of base effects, uncertainties related to the persistence of the COVID-19 pandemic, and ...
Our Methodology. For our list of countries with the best economy in Africa, we sourced the data from the IMF’s database which tracks GDP at current prices. We narrowed down our selection to 15 ...
The African Development Bank projects an annual economic growth rate of 4.3 per cent, up from 3.7 per cent last year, with East Africa once again projected to be the most buoyant region. But reducing ...
Africa is more than the sum of its parts. This vast, diverse, culturally-rich continent with its painful colonial past is showing remarkable resilience and has what it takes to become an economic ...