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  • Vol 51 No 2
  • 22/01/2010

A slow return to growth

Africa suffered less than had been feared from the recession and its exports are set to recover this year thanks to buoyant demand from Asia

  • Vol 51 No 2
  • 22/01/2010

BRIC building

'African assets were undervalued and China's presence has helped correct that, whether in bonds or foreign direct investment', said Victor Lopes, Africa Economist at Standard Chartered Bank. Multinationals from the BRICs - emerging nations Brazil, Rus...

  • Vol 50 No 22
  • 06/11/2009

Experts argue about Africa's prospects

The IMF and the AfDB differ sharply on the severity of the global recession's effects on Africa and the measures needed to ameliorate them

  • Vol 50 No 13
  • 26/06/2009

Synchrobudgets

As they approach economic union, East Africa's finance ministers struggle to balance the books at home

  • Vol 50 No 13
  • 26/06/2009

Kikwete's bailout package

Tanzania, the second largest of the big-three members of the East African Community, has presented a budget with a bullish message designed to spend its way out of the global economic crisis. At 31%, the overall budget increase is the largest in the EA...

  • Vol 50 No 11
  • 29/05/2009

The cement boom

In both Angola and Congo-Kinshasa, public works produce surprising profits for well-connected cement producers, but an oil-fired building boom requires a lot of cement. Angola's Minister of Public Works, General Francisco Higino Lopes Carneiro, said in...

  • Vol 50 No 8
  • 17/04/2009

The bust and after

Finance ministers and central bank governors are holding an African summit in Washington next week to map a way out of the crisis

  • Vol 50 No 8
  • 17/04/2009

And the good news

Amid the gloom lie some positives. African economies now have on average 5.7 months of reserves to cover imports, policy frameworks are sounder, government ministries are better staffed. The informal economy has a resilience that cannot be measured. Inter...

  • Vol 50 No 7
  • 03/04/2009

Homemade toxic assets

After some stellar years of expansion, the financial sector faces a deepening crisis

  • Vol 50 No 6
  • 20/03/2009

After the economic crash, the political fallout

Bankers in Dar es Salaam last week predicted a catastrophic downturn in African economies unless serious measures were implemented. These would have to include substantial packages for Africa's economies. Nancy Birdsall of the Center for Global Developme...

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