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Your crypto, your safety: Securing Africa’s financial future
Anti-money-laundering and cybersecurity frameworks are critical to the continent’s crypto future – and central to the credibility of the entire crypto ecosystem.…
Why Africa needs sovereign wealth funds (done right)
The sovereign wealth fund – to channel resource revenues into infrastructure, say – is a tool more African countries should adopt…
China’s African harvest: Trade wars are reshaping the fruit bowl
A peachy stone fruit deal between South Africa and China is the latest in a list of African agriculture trade wins…
How this year’s Nobel winners changed the thinking on economic growth
Philippe Aghion, Peter Howitt and Joel Mokyr have been honoured for their contributions towards explaining how to achieve sustained economic growth…
Nigeria’s reform gamble: Growth finds its feet, but poverty still bites
The West African country’s economy has pulled back from the brink. But those gains haven’t translated into better lives for ordinary Nigerians…
Africa – finally boom adjacent
Improving terms of trade, strengthening currencies and falling inflation are priming the continent for a growth surge…
Can SuperRand hang onto its hero year?
The rand’s gains are largely a story of dollar weakness, but there a few home factors that could see the unruly currency strengthen further…
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