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GCC Retail Sector : A shift toward Artificial Intelligence
- April 22, 2019
- Posted by: marketing
- Category: Africa, Blog Category, Economics, Technology & Telecommunication
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With a growing understanding of the impact Artificial Intelligence (AI) is likely to have on customer relations and sales, retailers across the world are exponentially investing in AI with an estimated global annual spending reaching around 7,3 billion dollars by 2022. Artificial intelligence has become a future strategic imperative for retailers. Through enabling process automation,
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Successes, failures, and the way forward for African Agriculture policies
- April 12, 2019
- Posted by: marketing
- Category: Africa, Agriculture, Blog Category, Central Africa, East Africa, Economics, North Africa, West Africa
This is part one of our African Agriculture series – where we explore successes, failures, and the way forward for African Agriculture policies. The dangers of land reform policies – The case of Ethiopia Land reforms have been a thorny issue in Africa since the independence periods. Many countries, including South Africa and Nigeria, are
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Is UAE an easy-win market for Health & Beauty companies?
- April 9, 2019
- Posted by: marketing
- Category: Africa, beauty, Blog Category, Business Strategy, Economics, Healthcare & Pharmaceuticals, Healthcare & Pharmaceuticals, Investment Research, Middle East
Ranked as the 5th among developing countries for future potential growth, the retail sector of the UAE keeps expanding beyond expectations. Despite recent signs of saturation, Dubai was still expected to add around 717,000 sqm of new retail space in 2018, while more 467,000 were expected to be added in Abu Dhabi. The overall market
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Chinese Modus Operandi In Africa
- December 17, 2018
- Posted by: marketing
- Category: Africa, Blog Category, Business Strategy, Central Africa, china, East Africa, Economics, Middle East, North Africa, Southern Africa, West Africa, Worldwide
In the last two decades, China has become the most important economic interlocutor of the African continent, through a number of both public and private initiatives across trade, investments, financing and cooperation. To have an idea of the scale of the Chinese wave, we can have a look at the most recent figures. In the -
Land Reform in Africa: lessons from Nigeria and South Africa
- August 8, 2018
- Posted by: Mona Abisourour
- Category: Africa, Blog Category, East Africa, North Africa, Southern Africa, West Africa
Africa has more than 202 million hectares of uncultivated land, equivalent to almost half of the world’s usable uncultivated land. Despite this, Africa suffers from the highest poverty rate in the world with nearly 47.5% of the population living below the poverty line of US$1.25 a day (as of 2008). Poor resource management and improper -
Winds of Change in Sub Saharan Africa
- June 6, 2018
- Posted by: infomineo-admin
- Category: Africa, Blog Category, Economics
Winds of change have been blowing impetuously in some Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries in the last months. Although change is always quite welcome when it comes during a gloomy period, it often goes hand-in-hand with a degree of uncertainty that requires action to be measured and possibly mitigated. The low period of discussion started in
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African Smart Cities: a solution to the booming urbanization process in the continent?
- May 25, 2018
- Posted by: infomineo-admin
- Category: Africa, Blog Category, Central Africa, East Africa, North Africa, Southern Africa, Technology & Telecommunication, West Africa
Africa is undergoing impressive urban growth. The continent who was alongside with Asia one of the least urbanized in the world back in 2014, is now demonstrating fast urbanization rates[1] and is envisioned to reach a 2.4 billion population within the next decades favoring cities over rural areas[2]. By 2030, it is expected that 6 -
How the Global 500 are organizing themselves in the Middle East and Africa
- May 25, 2018
- Posted by: infomineo-admin
- Category: Africa, Blog Category, Business Strategy, Central Africa, East Africa, Middle East, North Africa, Southern Africa, West Africa, Worldwide
Highlights from this year’s Organizing for Growth Report For over 25 years the American Fortune magazine publishes an annual list of the top Global 500 companies ranked by revenue. The companies that made the list in 2017 generated a combined revenue of 27.7 trillion USD — roughly 37% of global GDP –, earned profits of
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Inflation in the MEA region: A Fragile Ecosystem
- May 2, 2018
- Posted by: infomineo-admin
- Category: Africa, Blog Category, Economics
Since the global financial crisis of 2007-2008, inflation has been on the watch in most economies. Its importance has been amplified as countries, investors and non-investors must understand inflation and its causes due to the fact that it can affect the price you pay of everything, from your daily cup of coffee to a share
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The Africa Continental Free Trade Area: Benefits, Costs and Implications
- April 11, 2018
- Posted by: infomineo-admin
- Category: Africa, Blog Category, East Africa, North Africa, Southern Africa, West Africa
African leaders from 44 African nations gathered at the African Union Summit from March 17th to 21st 2018 in Kigali, Rwanda, and signed the Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) treaty to create the world’s largest single market. The agreement will be the largest trade agreement in history since the creation of the World Trade Organization.