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The growing need for common ESG standards and regulations: The case of the Asset Management industry
- May 8, 2020
- Posted by: Alaae Sbai
- Category: Blog Category, Economics, Finance & Accounting, Financial Services, Funding Trends, North Africa, Sustainable Development
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Environmental Social and Governance (ESG) investing has taken the center stage in finance. Investors have been increasingly pouring money into ESG funds, and asset managers have taken notice and responded to this trend by embracing ESG factors within their strategies to attract more inflows, balancing ESG requirements with traditional risk and reward considerations. Despite a
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“Power to X”: What role could Morocco play in this new paradigm?
- April 13, 2020
- Posted by: Alaae Sbai
- Category: Africa, Economics, Energy, North Africa, Sustainable Development, Technology
“Power to X” in few words “Power to X” or “PtX” is a technology that consists in transforming electricity into another energy vector. This “X-vector” could be heat (Power to Heat) to meet industrial needs or to supply heating networks. It could also be a synthesis gas (Power to Gas) such as hydrogen for mobility
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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
In southern Morocco, on the edge of the Saharan desert, sits one of the world’s most remarkable engineering projects: the Noor Power Plant. This is the second largest solar plant in the world with a total capacity of 510MW and an area that dwarfs the nearby city of Ouarzazate. However, its staggering size is not -
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 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, 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
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