The rollout of new micro-insurance products in partnership with mobile operators is allowing Ghana to deepen penetration rates, something that has historically proven tricky due to its large informal sector and a lack of consumer awareness.
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Late March saw the Bahrain Bourse (BHB) inaugurate the Bahrain Investment Market (BIM) – an alternative source of financing for growing businesses in the kingdom and the wider MENA region.
A spate of new investments in Nigeria’s sugar sector should help move the country closer towards its objective of self-sufficiency, although current production is lagging behind government targets.
Economic update | Les opérateurs de télécommunications gabonais misent sur les données à forte valeur ajoutée pour relancer un chiffre d’affaires en baisse
30 Jun 2017
Confrontés à un rétrécissement des marges et à une concurrence accrue dans le segment des données mobiles, deux opérateurs de télécommunications ont fusionné l’an dernier, tandis que les acteurs locaux envisagent de faire face au fléchissement de leur chiffre d’affaires à l’aide de stratégies de diversification axées sur les données.
Economic update | Kenyan government pushes through infrastructure projects for Vision 2030
30 Jun 2017
Kenya has inaugurated a new multibillion-dollar railway, with the long-awaited project just one of several that the government has been aggressively developing under its Vision 2030 economic blueprint.
A new draft budget released in Tanzania last month emphasises capital projects as a means to further boost industrial activity in what is already one of Africa’s fastest-growing economies.