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The UK government is stepping up efforts to foster economic relations with Africa, exploring business opportunities across the continent with its first major international investment...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has proven an unlikely countervailing force to the disrepair of international institutions exposed by the pandemic and worsened by nationalism...

The government should therefore maintain adequate fiscal support to households and firms, preserve financial stability, and facilitate a sustained economic transformation as the recovery strengthens. The...

Looking beyond the near term, emphasis should be on “building better for the future” by supporting the transformation toward a smarter, greener economy. The following...

Global uncertainty reached unprecedented levels at the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak and remains elevated. The World Uncertainty Index—a quarterly measure of global economic and policy uncertainty covering...

In late 2019, as the African oil and gas industry was looking to the future with optimism, Offshore Engineer wrote that the continent was had...

When “Google” was coined in the 1930s attributing it to the nephew of American Mathematician Edward Kasner, possibly it was never envisaged how its creative...

My favourite definition of ‘entrepreneurship’ is “the creation or extraction of value”. Simple, right? It means wherever you are, if you are creating extra value...

As usual, various institutions, ranging from the Brettons Woods institutions – the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank – private institutions such as Fitch...

For decades, many of Africa’s oil- and gas-producing states followed a predictable pattern. They treated their oil and gas primarily as raw materials that could...