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Africa Supplement 2016 | Table Of Contents
Our annual special coverage focusing on sub-Saharan Africa.
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African Banking: Innovation And Its Limits
Africa's enormous potential for growth is hampered by its citizens'lack of access to banking.
Emerging & Frontier Markets
African Debt Loads To Grow Again
Foreign-currency bonds offer needed resources but come with heavy risks.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Agribiz Mergers Raise Food Security Issues
A series of proposed megamergers in the global agrochemicals and seed industries—capped by Bayer's record $66 billion cash bid for Monsanto—raise fears ofa pricing monopoly in the farm-supply industry and threat tothe global food supply.
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Barclays Sells Down Africa Stake
UK-based Barclays has reduced its shareholding in Johannesburg-listed Barclays Africa from 62.3% to 50.1% this year and is believed to be seeking to reduce that stake further to around 20%.
Award Winners
Best Of The Best in Finance 2016
A roundup of winners ofGlobal Financeawards duringthe past year.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Central Banker Report Cards 2016
Global Finance takes the world’s central bank governors to school in our annual “report cards” grading their economic stewardship.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Central Bankers: Have They Reached The Limits Of Their Power?
Central bank governors face the tough task of stimulating growth with monetary policy, which seems to have reached a natural limit. Only fiscal policy can set the stage for long-term expansion.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Countries Turn To VAT To Plug Tax Gap
Gulf nations are the latest in the growing number of countries implementing value-added taxes (VAT) on goods and services.<br />
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Danger In The Cloud
The2016 Global Cloud Data Security Study, compiled for digital security company Gemalto by the Ponemon Institute, shows that safety measures are not keeping up with Cloud data challenges, making organizations vulnerable in storage and management of confidential information.
Features
Erdogan & Putin: New Best Frenemies
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin seem to have mended fences. Will the alliance last?
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
European Bond-Buying Spree Warps Markets
Blue-chip bond buys add liquidity fuel to companies already swimming in cash.