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  • 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
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    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
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  • Winds of Change in Sub Saharan Africa

    • June 6, 2018
    • Posted by: infomineo-admin
    • Category: Africa, Blog Category, Economics
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    Maputo, Mozambique

    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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  • Inflation in the MEA region: A Fragile Ecosystem

    • May 2, 2018
    • Posted by: infomineo-admin
    • Category: Africa, Blog Category, Economics
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    Zimbabwean Dollars

    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
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    Africa Continental Free Trade Area
    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.
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  • Could 3D printing revolutionize manufacturing in Africa and the Middle East?

    • February 23, 2018
    • Posted by: Mona Abisourour
    • Category: Africa, Blog Category, Middle East, Technology & Telecommunication
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    Additive manufacturing, or 3D printing, is a truly disrupting phenomenon whose market, technologies, knowledge, and field of applications are witnessing an exponential growth along the last 10 years. Counted among the main technologies leading the 4th Industrial Revolution, Additive Manufacturing is currently transforming industrial production: At a company level, in the sense of redesigning the
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  • Seven Benefits of Outsourcing Research

    • February 19, 2018
    • Posted by: Mona Abisourour
    • Category: Blog Category, Business Strategy
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    Outsourcing was not identified as a business strategy until 1989 and since then it has become a very common practice in many businesses. Typically, companies consider an outsourcing strategy for their support functions that are out of the company’s areas of expertise. Many of Infomineo's prospective clients that require ongoing access to research come to
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  • An outsourcing solution to accessing talent in Africa and the Middle East

    • February 14, 2018
    • Posted by: Mona Abisourour
    • Category: Africa, Blog Category, Business Strategy, Middle East
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    Back in 2009, I began working on a first assignment as a consultant in Morocco. For the past 8 years, I have not left the region, working in countries as diverse as Morocco, Egypt, Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. From many discussions with business people in the region only
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  • Developments and Trends of Africa’s Oil & Gas Industry

    • January 17, 2018
    • Posted by: Mona Abisourour
    • Category: Africa
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    PwC South Africa released the seventh edition of its annual Africa oil and gas review, reporting on the activity and developments of the industry on the continent. The review outlines the main challenges faced by the oil & gas businesses, identifies hurdles to their growth, analyses the companies’ strategic focus in overcoming those challenges, and

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  • Digitalization to Spur African Growth

    • December 18, 2017
    • Posted by: Mona Abisourour
    • Category: Africa, Blog Category, Technology & Telecommunication
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    Digitalization, a term commonly confused with digitization, is currently a burgeoning phenomenon and the rise of the fourth industrial revolution has a lot to do with that. According to Gartner’s IT Glossary, digitalization is the use of digital technologies to change a business model and provide new revenue and value-producing opportunities [1], whereas, digitization is the
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  • Investments in Agribusiness in Africa

    • October 30, 2017
    • Posted by: Mona Abisourour
    • Category: Africa, Agriculture, Blog Category, Sustainable Development, Technology & Telecommunication
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    Can Africa feed the world? Africa’s agriculture sector has been growing at a steady pace and might turn the continent into an economic power. Africa might be able to feed itself and the world if it keeps putting a focus on enhancing efficiency in using its resources. The focus on agriculture emerged from the willingness
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