Economic Data
Poorest Countries in the World 2025
The world’s poorest countries suffer from civil wars, ethnic and sectarian strife. Soaring inflation has made their situations worse.
The Central African Republic
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Central African Republic
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Features
African Banking’s Transitional Moment
Patrick Akinwuntan, group executive director of Ecobank Transnational, explains the bank’s plans to use mobile technology to vastly expand its customer base in the 33 African countries in which it operates
Features
Finance App Boosts SMEs Squeezed By Risk
New approach to funding fills gaps for African entrepreneurs with strong networks and solid track records.
Award Winners
Growing With Startups
Sim Tshabalala, joint group chief executive of Standard Bank, explains how the continent’s biggest bank will benefit from Africa’s coming renewal.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Barclays To Sell Africa Business
Capital Markets | Regulation<br />
“Nothing will make us deviate or change our course. We are not exiting our operations in any of our African markets,” declared Maria Ramos, CEO of Barclays Africa.
Economics, Policy & Regulation
SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA OUTPACES BIGGER COMPETITORS
Regional Report | Africa
Africa’s story is no longer that of a continent with great potential. Increasingly, the leaders and peoples of the continent, in collaboration with outsiders, are translating that potential into concrete achievements.
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Global Salon: Francisco Ferreira
SIDESTEPPING THE BOOM AND BUST By Tiziana Barghini Global Finance sat down with Francisco Ferreira, chief economist, Africa, at the World Bank, to discuss the continent’s economic outlook. The pace of growth in Africa hovered around an impressive ...
News
Tax Reform Improving Business Clime In Sub-Saharan African Countries
Many of the 19 Francophone countries of Sub-Saharan Africathat is, those whose citizens speak French and who were otherwise influenced...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
THE OIL AND GAS WINDFALL
<p><strong>East Africa is a hotbed of new oil and natural gas finds. Most countries are taking a slow and measured approach to developing their resource boon, but will they avoid the resource curse that plagued many early-developers? </strong></p>