The rise of the fourth industrial revolution is adding intricacy to future economies and their employment outcome...
By Monde Mawasha 21 Sep 2017
Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, not all of the economic news in Africa has been negative. We continue to see promising developments...
NJ Ayuk 4 Nov 2020
Congratulations to the SME companies who have won full-page BizListing entries in Bizcommunity's business directory...
Bizcommunity.com 26 Oct 2020
Prior to the pandemic, Africa was identified as one of the fastest-growing consumer markets in the world, with household consumption growing even faster than GDP...
23 Jul 2020
The Covid-19 lockdown left a trail of devastation across entire industries - but it has also forced many South African businesses to look for new approaches and markets...
Richard Neal 21 Jul 2020
The Agreement Establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) was brokered by the African Union (AU) and adopted by 44 of its 55 member states on 21 March 2018. By February 2019, all AU countries, save for Eritrea, had become signatories to the AfCFTA, which came into force on 30 May 2019...
Robyn Berger, Theunis Claassen and Catherine Robson 30 Jun 2020
Artur Schaback, one of the co-founders and COO of Paxful, shares how the company has adjusted to life under lockdown...
Evan-Lee Courie 19 May 2020
A number of rating agencies have downgraded emerging market economies during the Covid-19 pandemic. Their actions have raised the question: why do so during a crisis?
Misheck Mutize 4 May 2020
The global economic costs of the Covid-19 pandemic will be massive, with the International Monetary Fund forecasting the worst global recession since the 1929 Great Depression...
Myriam Blin 20 Apr 2020
Since 2000, European and African leaders have been talking about giving the partnership between the two continents a "new strategic" dimension...
Carlos Lopes 1 Apr 2020
With the novel coronavirus Covid-19 having reached the African continent, countries are getting ready to manage the spread of the virus and ensure that their fragile health systems can cope...
Dorothy Tembo 1 Apr 2020
The African Development Bank's new $3bn Fight Covid-19 Social Bond is the largest dollar-denominated social bond ever launched in international capital markets to date...
30 Mar 2020
The rise of China in Africa has triggered an ongoing debate about whether Chinese capital is a barrier that entraps African governments in practices that hinder poverty reduction...
Simon Manda 25 Mar 2020
Economic growth is driven by a number of factors. These include foreign direct investment, national savings, household spending, fiscal and monetary policies...
Muazu Ibrahim 25 Feb 2020
There is renewed concern about the sustainability of rising debt levels in many African countries. Much of this debt is being incurred through foreign currency denominated Eurobonds issued on international financial markets...
Misheck Mutize 20 Feb 2020
