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If the numbers are correct, and it’s not certain that they are, Cape Town may have overtaken Johannesburg as the largest city in South Africa.
There’s a need to support production and efficiencies in supply and distribution of essential goods and services in Kenya.
Once you appreciate that a budget can work for you, it can be a financially empowering exercise.
Ecowas regulations on pastoralism discourage big investment in livestock and need to be reformed in line with present day realities.
Many sources of finance, including those from the World Bank and IMF, don’t adequately cater for African nations’ specific needs.
Ghana and other west African cocoa growing countries must harness their combined bargaining strength to address the challenges plaguing cocoa farming.
Nigeria’s new marine and blue economy ministry has promise but it must be well run.
Workers’ power is being recast as precarious workers in Africa experiment with new ways of organising in the digital age
Cape Town’s informal traders need support, but they need to be consulted first.
Financing is available to farmers. What’s in contention is whether what’s available helps farmers enter the industry, expand and grow.
Efforts have been made to change the patterns of inequality in South Africa. But not enough has been done. Race-based inequality is still a real problem.
The South African government must act on the ineffective and politics-ridden system of land leases and ensure that beneficiaries are getting secure land rights.
China is moving beyond oil and extractive commodities towards industrial production, job creation and investments that lead to exports.
COVID-19-related support only reduced the negative impact of the pandemic on financial capital, and not on the other forms of capital
The challenge is to ensure that the bank is making decisions on a principled and predictable basis.
The idea of embedding robust labour obligations in the Kenya-US agreement is highly controversial.
Without governance reforms, Zimbabwe will continue to face an economic crisis.
Digital tax filing can improve accuracy and timeliness but it doesn’t always translate into higher tax revenue.
Access to economic and education opportunities increases women’s ability to withstand and recover from financial shocks.
South Africa’s vaping tax is not well-targeted to reduce consumption of vaping products by the youth.
Degrowth will make the environmental crisis worse.
South Africa needs a new social contract whose core aim is the creation of dynamic economy.
African competition authorities must investigate signs of anti-competitive conduct in fertilizer markets
Fixing Nigeria’s food inflation goes beyond declaring a state of emergency.