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  • Vol 47 No 24
  •  1st December 2006

Forget the politics, say advisors

An overpriced rand and government protectionism block foreign direct investment and economic growth. That is the view of a team of Harvard University economists, who are advising the government on its Accelerated Shared Growth Initiative for South Africa ...

  • Vol 47 No 17
  •  25th August 2006

Zapping the zeroes

Despite a chaotic currency change, its architect Gideon Gono remains the President's close ally

  • Vol 46 No 2
  •  21st January 2005

Aid, trade and reform

Hopes are high for faster growth this year as G8 countries promise more backing for Africa

  • Vol 46 No 2
  •  21st January 2005

Heading higher

The International Monetary Fund's forecast of average growth of 5.8 per cent for sub-Saharan Africa this year is the region's best out-turn for 30 years. The bigger question is how higher growth will reduce Africa's poverty. The figures include fast-growi...

  • Vol 44 No 3
  •  7th February 2003

Rebel forces, market forces

Côte d'Ivoire's civil war may have boosted cocoa prices but it has also closed the processing plants

  • Vol 43 No 2
  •  25th January 2002

Bear markets

The rich world's recession hits Africa's prospects but reform goes slowly on

  • Vol 41 No 1
  •  7th January 2000

Less debt, more growth

World Bank President Jim Wolfensohn, together with internationalist anti-debt campaigners, will get joint credit if the Bank and the international Monetary Fund's Heavily Indebted Poor Country initiative makes real progress this year. Most creditor countr...

  • Vol 40 No 6
  •  19th March 1999

Down with tariffs

The Union Economique et Monétaire Ouest-Africaine (UEMOA), the economic and monetary union of the eight West African states of the Franc Zone, is nine months away from a brave experiment in economic integration. From 1 January tariffs, with very few excep...

  • Vol 39 No 19
  •  25th September 1998

Counting the cost

Hopes that Africa would turn the economic corner have been dampened as the Asian and Russian crises hit growth prospects

  • Vol 39 No 19
  •  25th September 1998

Crisis? What crisis?

Most of Africa’s 18 stock markets are well insulated from successive financial crises in East Asia, Russia and now, Brazil. Africa’s biggest worries are in its most open and most liquid market - South Africa. Targeted by speculators, the rand has fallen ...

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