In Emerging Markets, Engaging Conversations At Scale
With thousands of consumers coming online every day, continental Africa is fertile ground for not only consumer goods but targeted…
2017 Emerging Market Inflows At Post-2006 Peak
Data Points To Seventh Straight Week Of Strong Inflows According to EPFR Global, flows into global emerging market funds (GEMs)…
In Emerging Markets, Tala Is Building Financial Identities
Entrepreneurship In Emerging Markets: Shivani Siroya, CEO, Tala Shivani Siroya is the founder and CEO of Tala, a mobile technology…
Low Cocoa Prices To Have Little Impact On Top African Producers
Frontier Friday: Ghana, Ivory Coast To Withstand “Low Cocoa” Cocoa prices remain at at a 10-year lows and will continue…
Angola Struggling Amid Low Oil
Country Response Not Sufficient Angola’s policy response to the international oil price environment has weakened over the last year. Coupled…
Gabon Update: Post-Election Risk Remains
Risks Clouding Outlook After Contentious Election After an election that led to countrywide unrest, Gabon, sub-Saharan Africa’s 5th-largest oil producer,…
Africa In 2017: Trends To Watch
Trends Across The Continent 2017 is likely to bring a cyclical recovery to sub-Saharan African economies, after a sluggish 2016,…
Nigeria Outlook Now At “Negative”: Fitch
Frontier Friday: OPEC Nation Down A Notch From ‘Stable’ Global agency Fitch Ratings this week revised its outlook on Nigeria‘s…
Kenya Outlook Placed On “Negative”: Fitch
Frontier Friday: Account Deficit Leads To Negative Outlook Kenya, which has improved its country ranking by 21 to 108 in the…
People News & Moves
New Board Members At Columbia Center The Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI) this month announced a number of new…
Global Economy: Complacency, Asia Is A Bright Spot
Put a frog in boiling water and it will immediately jump out. But place it in cold water and raise…
Prospering In The Next Emerging Markets
Book Review Marko Dimitrijević, CFA, and chairman of Volta Global knows enough about the emerging and frontier markets. A finance professional…
