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The Gig-Work platforms’ market sheds its skin to face COVID’s impact
- March 12, 2021
- Posted by: Alaae Sbai
- Category: Africa, Economics, Technology, Worldwide
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Over the past year, we all noticed more family members, friends, and colleagues adopting gig work as a lifebuoy to cope with the pandemic’s consequences. The market landscape expanded to reach different professions and sectors, offering both workers and businesses, help to absorb shocks. It is totally reasonable to expect that, since the pandemic impacted
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Is the race for unicorns, a rightful race for African tech startups?
- March 2, 2021
- Posted by: Alaae Sbai
- Category: Africa, Economics, Technology
With a valuation of around $1 billion at IPO, Jumia’s listing in 2019 in the New York Stock Exchange has confirmed Africa’s first ‘now failed’ unicorn. The term ‘’unicorn’’ was coined in 2013 by Aileen Lee, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist, to describe a privately held, fast-growing startup. In detail, a unicorn refers to a
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Business Aspects of the COP22
- April 6, 2016
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- Category: Africa, Blog Category, North Africa, Sustainable Development
Morocco will be hosting the 22nd edition of the Conference of the Parties on November 2016, an event considered as the most important rendez-vous on climate change effects. This event comes at a time when the country is embarking on ambitious projects related to the fight against climate change: Morocco is expecting to raise its -
Rwanda: A Rapid Economic Transformation
- November 13, 2015
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- Category: Africa, West Africa
After a four-year civil war that ended in 1994 and that has thrown Rwanda into a deep crisis, the country is engaged in a new momentum of economic development. In fact, the government has launched in 2000 a long-term development strategy “Rwanda 2020”. The goal of this program is to transform the country from a