Africa needs to embrace the data revolution — the exponential increase in the volume and types of data available, which is creating unprecedented opportunities to inform and transform societies. To take one small example of the potential value: telecom companies can track people’s movements using data that identify the mobile phone towers through which their calls are […]
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L’Afrique doit rallier la révolution des données – l’augmentation exponentielle du volume et des types de données disponibles qui offre la possibilité sans précédent d’informer et de transformer la société. Prenons un petit exemple des potentialités qu’offre cette révolution: les compagnies de télécommunication peuvent suivre les mouvements de leurs abonnés en utilisant des données qui
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Following the attacks of previous months, Tunisia’s central bank revised its growth estimates for the country; this is not likely to exceed 1 per cent in 2015. This slowdown is due partly to the security situation, but at a more structural level also to the slump in external demand for goods from Tunisia, which conduct
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Suite aux attentats des derniers mois, la Banque centrale de Tunisie a revu ses estimations de croissance pour le pays ; elle serait limitée à 1 % en 2015. Ce ralentissement provient d’une part de la conjoncture sécuritaire, mais de manière plus structurelle de l’atonie de la demande extérieure adressée à la Tunisie, dont 64
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Africa’s much trumpeted growth is real. It is a significant historical achievement to be able to almost triple GDP in one and half decade. The business of attribution is always a risky undertaking and it would be no different in this case. To say this achievement was provoked by the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is
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Dubbed the new investment frontier, Africa’s attractiveness is becoming more visible to large corporations, institutions and investors. Reflecting this, foreign investment (FDI) flows have grown exponentially since the turn of the millennium. Countries such as South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt and Morocco are leading the way. High growth economies such as Zambia, Ghana, Tanzania and
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Surnommée la nouvelle frontière d’investissement, l’Afrique est de plus en plus attractive aux yeux des grandes entreprises, des institutions et des investisseurs. En témoignent les flux d’investissement direct étranger (IDE), qui ont progressé de manière exponentielle depuis le tournant du millénaire, avec en tête des pays comme l’Afrique du Sud, le Nigéria, le Kenya, l’Égypte
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The deadlock in the World Trade Organisation (WTO) so called Doha Development Round negotiations remains firmly in place. Negotiators seem unable to meet deadline after deadline for delivering on many of the Round promises. Last year in the meeting that was held in Bali, Indonesia, there were some baby steps that were painted as a
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Since the beginning of this year a relentless flow of images from the Italian island of Lampedusa, the city of Calais where the Eurotunnel starts, Bodrum in Turkey, the eastern islands of Greece, or the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla in Morocco, are invading television screens and media outlets. They portray a massive scale
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The ambitions of a young Ugandan entrepreneur to expand his coffee processing business will soon be within reach. East Africa’s accelerated integration process is opening up possibilities that were unthinkable not long ago. In a couple of years he may be able to tap into West Africa’s 350 million people without having to pay the
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