December 11, 2019/ — The Board of the World Bank Group has approved a total of $250 million in International Development Association (IDA) credits and grants to help the Federal Republic of Ethiopia, the Republic of Zambia, and the African Union (AU) counter the spread of infectious diseases and address key regional and continental public […]
Accra, December 10, 2019 – Ghana’s economic growth has been strong over the past decade, with annual GDP per capita growth at 4.4 percent between 2006 and 2017.
Geneva, Switzerland, December 10, 2019//-The Stop TB Partnership today launched the Global Plan to End TB 2018-2022.
December 9, 2019//-The son of the man who ruled Angola for 38 years has gone on trial for corruption in a rare case of such a high-profile official being taken to court.
Nairobi, Kenya, December 9, 2019: Tony O. Elumelu, CON, Founder of the Tony Elumelu Foundation, has urged African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Heads of State to improve the business environment in their countries to drive industrialisation and wealth creation in ACP member states.
London, UK, December 9, 2019/ — African markets will become increasingly attractive in 2020 at a time when wider global trends are more set against the interests of international businesses than they have been for many years.
With borrowing costs at multi-decade lows, governments seemingly can take on much more debt without any great concern about long-term consequences. But the real risks and costs of higher public borrowing may be hidden. Cambridge, UK, December 8, 2019//- With interest rates on government debt at multi-decade lows, a number of leading economists have argued that almost every […]
December 7, 2019//-There are many aspects to succeeding as an entrepreneur.
December 7, 2019//-Although South Africa’s main financial institutions, the Ministry of Finance and the Reserve Bank, are now under competent management, the economy continues to limp along. What are the bottlenecks to growth and what can ‘Team Ramaphosa’ do to kick-start growth?
December 6, 2019//-The fiscal cost of occupation for the Palestinian people, over the 2000-2017 period, is estimated at US$47.7 billion, or thrice the size of the Palestinian economy in 2017, and it continues to rise, according to the latest UNCTAD report to the United Nations General Assembly.
