The role of African banks in the post-COVID economic recovery
Africa has surprisingly not been as badly hit by the coronavirus pandemic as probably feared by many. The same cannot...
- Thursday, June 04, 2026
BusinessDay
Africa has surprisingly not been as badly hit by the coronavirus pandemic as probably feared by many. The same cannot...
Revelations of bigger economy sizes overnight, after later than usual GDP rebasing exercises by African countries, were understandably met with...
Challenge the prevailing narrative In my column of 7th April 2020, I discussed “The power of narratives” using insights from Nobel...
Unsurprisingly, the Madagascar COVID-19 “magic” potion turned out to be a faux cure, it has been found. Yes, the potion...
There are now more frequent rebasing exercises for both GDP and inflation data across the continent. Consequently, the changes, often...
CGD & APHRC (2014) identify six key challenges to timely and accurate African data by the continent’s statistics agencies viz....
Many observers perceive the accuracy and reliability of African economic statistics as far less than ideal. Morten Jerven’s 2013 book “Poor...
On behalf of African Banker magazine in January 2020, I sought the views of Constantinos Kypreos, senior vice-president for financial institutions at...
QUOTE: My column this week is an interview with Janine Dow, head of francophone African banks at Fitch Ratings in...
My column this week presents an article I wrote for African Banker magazine in the first quarter of 2020 about...