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With their faded brickwork facades advertising cheap cleaning products and SIM cards, the modest foreign-owned convenience stores of Pretoria are a familiar sight at the heart of township life. Yet [...]

Telephones have always been a fundamental part of the remittance process, Ahmed Ismail says with a wry laugh; when they ring early in the morning, it tends to be costly. [...]

For Argentinians of a certain age, the country's on-off relationship with the unpopular International Monetary Fund has become something of a running joke. Since first approaching the IMF for help [...]

On 2 March, Ghanaian finance minister Ken Ofori-Atta laid out taxation and spending plans in the first budget under President Nana Akufo-Addo, who was elected in December. The big difficulty [...]

According to the UN's 2017 World Happiness Report, an effort to measure societal contentedness beyond GDP growth, Norway is the world's happiest country. Joining it in the top ten are [...]

Better access to corporate data could open an enormous middle market for investment in Africa. Investors and corporates around the world, seeking higher yields and access to new markets, are [...]

MINING CABINET SECRETARY Najib Balala (right) has executed a series of strong opening moves shortly after being appointed head of the country's newly formed Ministry of Mining, and his hard-line [...]

AS THE BIGGEST SOURCE OF FOREIGN revenue, the tourist sector is obviously of prime importance to the Kenyan economy. In common with all other countries around the world, security alerts [...]

TWO SUCCESSIVE BODY BLOWS HAVE been dealt to Kenyan manufacturers by the government in the last couple of months. This comes on top of a general downturn in the sector [...]

Mozambique is one the verge of a massive gas boom that will completely transform its revenue stream. But the pertinent question is how to translate this energy windfall into meaningful [...]

LIKE THE REST OF THE WORLD, THE UAE was negatively impacted by the global economic crisis between 2008 and 2009, especially the emirate of Dubai which was highly leveraged. The [...]

Unfavourable weather conditions, low exports, high imports and high oil and food prices have been cited as the main culprits holding back the gains made by the promising Kenyan economy. [...]

Long regarded as the poorer cousin of its South African and Zimbabwean regional counterparts, Zambia is fast gaining attention as a desirable destination for agricultural investors, and is becoming a [...]

THE COLLAPSE OF GLOBAL OIL PRICES AND ELECTIONS in Nigeria, by some way the region's largest economy, have dominated the news flow in West Africa across 2014/15. A loss of [...]

Mozambique has long been one of the IMF's favoured partners in Africa. Its economy has generally been soundly managed and the government has listened to IMF advice, adjusting its budgets [...]

ACCORDING TO THE KENYA NATIONAL Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) agriculture accounts for 27% of the country's GDP. The Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI) says that 45% of government revenue is [...]

Zimbabwe's revenue from mining in the first nine months of this year $1.17bn Remittances are the fourth-largest source of foreign exchange in Kenya afte revenue from tea, horticulture and tourism. [...]

* US war veteran and businessman Jerome Almon (above) is launching I a $100bn initiative to rally the support of African Americans to invest in Africa and ride on its [...]

* One way to track Africa's progress is by charting the number of countries that have achieved middle income status of $1,000 GDP per capita: today there are 22. If [...]

In 2011 Ghana's economy grew at 14.4 percent boosted by new oil production and a rebounded construction sector. With oil production reaching its plateau, in 2012 GDP growth is expected [...]

Africa has 15% of the world's population but shares only 1.5% of its total GDP of $78.95 trillion Dr James Mwangi, CEO and MD of Equity Bank, has been named [...]

41m Forests account for 51%, or 41m hectares, of the total area of Mozambique. It is one of the most forested countries on the African continent. Forests' share of the [...]

25 rapid growth countries will account for 50% of global GDP by 2020, when measured at purchasing power parity. They will also account for 38% of world consumer spending and [...]

Only in recent years have outside investors started to become aware of the size of Ethiopia's economy and the potential for business. The IMF forecasts imports of goods will be [...]