This week, international news media reported that France’s Total had struck oil on the CI-100 block off Ivory Coast adjacent to Ghana’s giant Jubilee Field. The block is very close…
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Governance is about making the right policy choices that puts emphasis on economic growth and economic freedoms. The two are not mutually exclusive; policy decisions are the fulcrum upon which…
Ethiopian Airlines has been able to raise its own debt and finance its own expansion without government cash. It is the first carrier outside Japan to operate the new Boeing 787…
Norway today ranks top in every major human development metric and it didn’t occur by chance. Rather, it had a concerted policy in place to develop a national petroleum industry,…
Rising commodity prices buoyed by an insatiable demand from China et al have pushed African commodity exports to all-time high. Mobile technologies and a rising middle class with extra consumer…
The economy of Brazil is bigger than the economy of all 54 African countries put together! Going a bit granular, Brazil’s economy is 2 times bigger than the economy of the…
Many African countries benefited from debt relief over the last ten years, but Kenya’s macroeconomic success is home-made. In 2003, Kenya’s debt stood at 60 percent of GDP. Then, through…
Reuters reports unregulated Chinese chemical companies are making active pharmaceutical ingredients (API). API producers and brokers indicate sub-standard drug ingredients are entering the global supply chain. Europe and US markets...
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