Via The Guardian, a report on how Africa’s unprecedented population growth will impact geopolitics, global trade, migration and almost every aspect of life: In 2022 the world’s population will pass 8 billion. It has increased by a third in just two decades. By 2050, there will be about 9.5 billion of us on the planet, according […]
Read more »Courtesy of The Wall Street Journal, an article on how Facebook’s global program, designed to boost growth outside the U.S., leads to unexpected data costs: Facebook FB -1.98% says it’s helping millions of the world’s poorest people get online through apps and services that allow them to use internet data free. Internal company documents show that many of these […]
Read more »Via Quartz Africa, an article on EVs in Africa: Adetayo Bamiduro didn’t set out to fight climate change in Africa’s mobility sector. His goal was to help professional drivers access and earn more from delivery and passenger gigs by owning their own vehicles. The core product of his Lagos-based startup, Metro Africa Xpress (MAX), was lease-to-own […]
Read more »Via McKinsey, a link to a detailed report on how Africa’s economic growth is creating substantial new business opportunities that are often overlooked by global companies, where consumer-facing industries, resources, agriculture, and infrastructure together could generate as much as $2.6 trillion in revenue annually by 2020, or $1 trillion more than today: Africa’s collective GDP, […]
Read more »Via The Emerging Markets Investor, a projection of expected returns in emerging markets for 2022-2028: The past decade in emerging markets has been one of slowing GDP growth, low earnings and poor returns. By and large, today valuations have come down enough from the lofty levels of 10 years ago to make the markets attractive, particularly […]
Read more »Via The Economist, an article on the rise of data centers in Africa: In the namanve industrial park on the edge of the Ugandan capital, Kampala, trucks rumble through the dust, laden with steel. Sacks of coffee pile up in warehouses. And at Raxio data centre, which opened this year, a local corner of the […]
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