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The changing face of Sino-African relations
- October 30, 2013
- Posted by: Imane FAHLI
- Category: Africa
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In the past decades, China has been the center of all attentions, rising from a third world country to being the second largest economy in the world. While it eased access to its vast domestic market, it also emerged as the world’s factory floor, becoming a world class location to produce and source a wide
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The African hospitality and lodging market: a lack of international branded supply creating new opportunities for private investors
- October 25, 2013
- Posted by: Sabrina STANSFIELD
- Category: Africa, Travel, Logistics & Hospitality
Africa achieved a real GDP CAGR of 5.2% over 2005-2010, in comparison with 2.0% for Western Europe and 3.4% for the world. IMF expects a 5.5% CAGR for African real GDP over 2010-2015, in comparison with 1.9% in Western Europe and 4.5% for the world. This sustained and broad-based economic development has triggered an increasing
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How is Africa perceived by foreign investors? – It depends on where they are from.
- October 22, 2013
- Posted by: Martin TRONQUIT
- Category: Africa
Infomineo provides services to companies seeking either a nearshore outsourcing platform for their EMEA operations or looking for information of African and Middle Eastern services. To promote these services my partner Hamza and I travel extensively to visit our clients and prospects around the world, including in the USA, France, Germany, the UK, Switzerland, Belgium,
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The Emerging Insurance Distribution Channels in Sub Saharan Africa
- October 10, 2013
- Posted by: Elmehdi AMID
- Category: Africa, Central Africa, East Africa, Financial Services, Southern Africa, West Africa
Insurance is considered as one of the booming industries in Africa thanks to the insurers’ will of deepening insurance penetration and take advantage of the continent’s promising trends. It wasn’t an easy task for the insurers to convince African people to buy their coverage products especially when those products are not made compulsory by the
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Private equity in Africa on the rise
- October 3, 2013
- Posted by: Naziha BAGUI
- Category: Africa, Financial Services
Private equity seems to hold the African growth promise. Amid the sluggish economy and the lengthy deleveraging process that the developed countries have been going through, Africa is rising as a fertile, promising, and untapped playground for foreign investments. Investors are shifting gears towards the black continent, not only to diversify away from a slowing
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Moroccan banks are eating big shares of West African cake…
- October 1, 2013
- Posted by: Gaïcha SADDY
- Category: Financial Services, North Africa, West Africa
With a total market of approximately 80 million consumers, the West African market is attracting more and more investments every day. According to the IMF, annual growth rate will be around 6 percent for sub-Saharan countries, while for McKinsey, overall African GDP will reach 2600 billion dollars in the next decade. The European crisis led
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Back From Cairo, Egypt
- September 27, 2013
- Posted by: Martin TRONQUIT
- Category: Middle East, North Africa
Working on Infomineo‘s expansion plan, I had the occasion to make a business trip to Egypt recently and wanted to share a few impressions. First of all, if I hadn’t known about the recent political events I would probably not have noticed anything. The city is roaring, people are busy and you don’t see protesters
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Dream and reality about mining opportunities in Africa
- September 27, 2013
- Posted by: Rachid MOUCHAOUCHE
- Category: Africa, Natural Resources & Energy
The African continent is often considered as a place of great opportunities for mining resources. But, figures show a different reality: the African continent accounts for 5.5% of the world total production in 2011[1], behind Asia (58.2%), Northern Americas (14.5%), Europe (9.9%) and Southern Americas (7.0%) and close to Australia (4.9%). This apparent contradiction is
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Land investments in Africa: a long-term move or a simple opportunity?
- September 17, 2013
- Posted by: Younes AMRAOUI
- Category: Africa, Agriculture
As we saw in the previous article, Africa has a considerable agricultural potential in terms of lands but doesn’t take full advantage of it because of its lack of means. On other continents, the situation is in the opposite direction as the developed regions of the world started to run out of agricultural resources for
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Key Figures of Moroccan Insurance Market
- September 17, 2013
- Posted by: Elmehdi AMID
- Category: Financial Services, North Africa
The Moroccan insurance market realized an interesting jump during the last 5 years. In 2012, the industry totalized MAD 26 billion of premiums vs. MAD 19.7bn in 2008 which represents a CAGR of 7.14%. The penetration rate (premiums/GDP) of the industry remains low compared with the world average of 7% even if it grew from