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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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