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Emerging & Frontier Markets

25 Best-Performing Companies In Africa 2016

The prolonged downturn in oil and other commodity prices has pushed petrochemical and mining firms out of the Global Finance rankings of the best-performing companies in sub-Saharan Africa this year.

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Adidas Favors Outside Track

Will bringing in an outsider revive the brand with fresh insight or cause it to stumble on the turns?

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Africa Seeks To Develop Agriculture

With a wealth of cultivable land, Africa seeks to develop agriculture.

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Africa Still Growing, Despite Slump

What has changed in Africa in the past year? The precipitous drop in commodity pricesthreatened the progress made during two decades of tremendous growth, driving diversification efforts.

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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.

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%.

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

Hanjin: Coal Mine Canary?

Some believe Hanjin's bankruptcy signals that quantitative easing has no more power, and a global recession is on the horizon.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Study says income and wealth inequality, which have widened a lot in the past 30 years in the US and elsewhere, make recessions more severe because poor people, who have little or no savings and often flawed credit, sharply reduce consumption when facing a sudden drop in income.