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Concentrated Solar Power
- November 28, 2019
- Posted by: Alaae Sbai
- Category: Africa, Blog Category, Economics, Energy, Natural Resources & Energy, North Africa
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Concentrated Solar Power
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Africa amidst the Trade War
- October 17, 2019
- Posted by: marketing
- Category: Africa, Blog Category, East Africa, Economics, Financial Services, North Africa, Southern Africa, West Africa
The US-China Trade War has seen two of the world’s largest economies battle each other through increased tariffs, political speeches and propaganda. While the presence of both countries in international cooperation forums, such as the G-20 summit should imply that there is hope for a quick “cease fire”, the current scenario points at a long, -
The Upsurge of Blockchain Market in Africa
- June 21, 2019
- Posted by: marketing
- Category: Africa, Blog Category, Central Africa, East Africa, Economics, North Africa, Technology & Telecommunication, West Africa
It is obvious that Africa needs technological innovations to jump a generation and catch up with other countries. The continent can indeed turn the lack of infrastructure from a disadvantage into an asset. It offers a blank playground to test and validate new concepts such as mobile payment, which has quickly gained ground, as it
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The dangers of a cash-crop first policy – The case of Ivory Coast
- May 10, 2019
- Posted by: marketing
- Category: Africa, Agriculture, Blog Category, Central Africa, East Africa, Economics, North Africa, West Africa
This is part two of our African Agriculture series – where we explore successes, failures, and the way forward for African Agriculture policies. The dangers of a cash-crop first policy – The case of Ivory Coast As a continent rich with natural resources, Africa has a long and complex history with the cultivation and exploitation
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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
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