Economy

Climate change and East Africa’s Economic progress

It is a misconception in many African countries that climate change is a ‘first world problem. While Africa has contributed little to global warming,...

Growth of Regional Banks in Africa

African banks are expanding into neighbouring countries and further afield benefiting from their knowledge and expertise in familiar territory. Over the last five years Africa...

Small Scale Enterprises are Sustainable Foreign Direct Investments

In this article Mazdak outlines the aspects which characterize SMEs as sustainable FD Investors and the relevance of SMEs as sustainable FDIs. There has always...

Emerging African economies: strategies for coping with global financial crisis

The recent global economic recess has far reaching implications on the stock market, employment of labor and survival of the production sector. Investors are...

Energy consumption and economic growth: evidence from low-income countries in Sub-Saharan Africa

The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the causality relationship between energy consumption and economic growth in four low-income countries in Sub-Saharan...

Debt And Economic Growth

This paper aims to study the effect of debt on economic growth of 19 developing countries over the period 1990-2011, through the use of...

Peace is good for business – entrepreneurship and violent conflict in Africa

Peace is good for business – entrepreneurship and violent conflict in Africa By Tilman Brück, Wim Naudé and Philip Verwimp Arms flows to sub-Saharan Africa (excluding...

Tana 2014 – Africa’s peace and security and illicit financial flows

The 3rd Tana Forum to discuss the Impacts of Illicit Financial Flows on Peace and Security in Africa from April 26-27 , 2014, Bahir...

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