Even as economic woes continue to grip the world’s developed economies, Indonesia’s mining sector has been on an impressive roll, with strong demand bolstering sales. Unlike the previous global downturns of 2007 and 2008, commodity prices surged in the first half of 2011 before dropping off slightly in the fourth quarter. This led to a windfall for...
As the largest exporter of tin on the planet, Indonesia has been enjoying a wave of strong demand and rising commodity prices in recent years as regional economic growth has surged.
Although southern Africa has been consistently inhabited for tens of thousands of years, South Africa’s modern history traces back most directly to the aboriginal Khoisan. The majority of modern South Africa’s black population is descended from a mix of ethnic groups, including the Bantu, who migrated from elsewhere in Africa over the past 2500...
One of West Africa’s most politically stable countries, with equally strong macroeconomic fundamentals, Ghana has a relatively high per capita GDP due in part to its sizeable gold and cocoa production, which will increase in the coming years as the country begins to pump its modest oil reserves. The economy quadrupled in size during the 2000s and a...
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