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Africa’s Strongest GDP Growth 2021? Watch Djibouti

Despite the particularly challenging international economic situation arising from the health crisis, the Republic of Djibouti has entered the year 2021 with determination. According to the World Bank’s Global Economic.

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The Role of Foreign Trade in Economic Growth

The role of foreign trade in economic growth, poverty alleviation and fostering mutual co-operation between nations cannot be overemphasized. According to the World Bank (2019), world exports of goods and.

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Climate change: A Dialogue Falling on Deaf Ears

While African leadership has made relatively slow progress in tackling climate change, climate conditions are suddenly playing out at entirely different levels. In recent years, climatic conditions in Africa have.

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Eliminating Hunger and Poverty in Africa Tall Order?

When the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were announced in 2015, it was clear that success on SDG goal one – No poverty and goal two – Zero Hunger, depends largely.

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Taking advantage of Africa’s new Markets and new Opportunities – looking beyond the safari

Right from the days of African independence to the turn of the 21st century, developed countries’ economic engagement with developing countries was largely limited to the provision of humanitarian and.

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Kenya Power Launches Smart Metering Project for SMEs Customers

Kenya Power recently launched a smart metering project that will benefit customers in the Small and Medium Enterprise (SMEs) sector across the country. The project falls under Kenya Electricity Modernisation.

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Green Industrialization: the pathway to building sustainable Economies in Africa

By Igiezele Katherine Although the level of COVID-19 devastation is still unravelling, there is no doubt that it has caused the deepest global recession in decades. As a result of.

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AfCFTA – The Road to January 2021: What The Free Trade Agreement Portends Economically

By Alkali Amana On March 21 2018, in Kigali, Rwanda, at a gathering of the African Union Summit, the African Union Treaty establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA).

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Incentivizing Agribusiness in Africa: Revealing A Growing Market Opportunity

By Alkali Amana When the British Economist Thomas Malthus predicted in his work ‘An Essay on the Principle of Population’ that food production would not be able to keep up.

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WTO: Why Okonjo-Iweala is yet to be named the new Director-General

By Kingsley Okeke But for the United States’ opposition to her candidacy, Ngozi Okonjo Iweala would have been named the first African and female to lead the World Trade Organization,.

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