Saloodo! will be the first logistics partner to provide digital road freight solutions on the AfricaPLC e-trade marketplace AfricaPLC assists to digitize African SMEs, so they can participate in and support the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) The partnership expects to expand across the continent by early 2021 Johannesburg, South Africa –...
Africa investor (Ai) partners Bloomberg African Asset Owner Series Africa investor (Ai) partners Bloomberg and The Continental Business Network (CBN) on first ever African Asset Owner Series on Co-investment Partnerships. This inaugural event in the series, will feature two panels focused on the African Union’s 5% Infrastructure Investment Agenda and global co-investment...
A defined solution to the infrastructure financing gap – Infrastructure Investment Trusts (IIT) Africa investor (Ai) partners African Capital Market leaders and the Global Listed Infrastructure Organisation (GLIO) on Africa’s first Infrastructure Investment Trusts (IIT) initiative – as recommended in the recent G20-OECD Infrastructure Working Group Report. VIEW REPORT Source: Infrastructure
In Ethiopia and Kenya, the attractive illusion of the “China model” has had grave financial consequences. The strategy of “infrastructure-led growth” (growth, not economic and social development) seems to be showing its limits in Africa, where China has largely been instrumental in promoting it. This strategy is based on the Keynesian multiplier...
Almost August. African COVID-19 Cases Rapidly Rising. Economic Strategies: What Now? Click here for details At this juncture, as we enter into August, Africa is seeing a gain in COVID-19 cases, and related deaths. How does the lives vs livelihoods conversation change with this new reality? Do we continue down the same...
Chairman Reed Underscores EXIM Commitment to Africa in Remarks to the President’s Advisory Council on Doing Business in Africa WASHINGTON – President and Chairman of the Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM) Kimberly A. Reed today addressed the President’s Advisory Council on Doing Business in Africa (PAC-DBIA), highlighting how EXIM...
Government’s R340bn infrastructure investment announced, to acclaim… and misgivings By Sasha Planting• 28 July 2020 Roughly 50 strategic infrastructure projects and 12 special projects worth R340-billion with the potential to create 290,000 jobs have been gazetted by the minister for public works and infrastructure and are mere months from being implemented. This is the first tangible outcome...
Almost August. African COVID-19 Cases Rapidly Rising. Economic Strategies: What Now? Johannesburg, South Africa, July 29, 2020 – Over the last fourteen weeks, we have explored a wide range of topics related to COVID-19 with a wide lens on the economic strategies Africa is employing in response to the pandemic. At this juncture, as...
‘Disruptions with Impact – the Intersection of Business and Philanthropy’ Click here for details Dr. James Mwangi, Managing Director and CEO of Equity Group Holdings and Executive Chairman of the Equity Group Foundation will be featured in a fireside chat with Harvard Business School Professor Caroline Elkins on July 22, 2020...
‘Disruptions with Impact – the Intersection of Business and Philanthropy’ Johannesburg, South Africa, July 22, 2020 – Dr. James Mwangi, Managing Director and CEO of Equity Group Holdings and Executive Chairman of the Equity Group Foundation will be featured in a fireside chat with Harvard Business School Professor Caroline Elkins on July...
