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  • Vol 50 No 13
  •  26th June 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 EAC b...

  • Vol 50 No 11
  •  29th May 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 la...

  • Vol 50 No 8
  •  17th April 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
  •  17th April 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
  •  3rd April 2009

Homemade toxic assets

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

  • Vol 50 No 6
  •  20th March 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 Developmen...

  • Vol 50 No 6
  •  20th March 2009

Sub-Saharan Africa's Economic Outlook: The Crisis Deepens

The facts and figures behind Africa's economic growth in 2009 and beyond

  • Vol 50 No 4
  •  20th February 2009

Don't shoot the ambulance

After a decade of growth in Africa, the IMF and World Bank's economists are offering loans and policy advice again

  • Vol 50 No 4
  •  20th February 2009

The indispensable Manuel

South African Finance Minister Trevor Manuel, despised by African National Congress President Jacob Zuma's bedrock supporters on the party's left and populist wings, is busy making himself indispensable. In his 13th budget, presented on 11 February, Manue...

  • Vol 49 No 22
  •  31st October 2008

Economy: Trouble in the markets

Watching oil prices fall from US$147 a barrel to $57 over the past month and listening to endless media speculation about his health must have been disconcerting for President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua. Yet on 30 October, he showed little sign of unease. He ann...

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