Courtesy of The Financial Times, an interesting article on efforts to upgrade the continent’s digital infrastructure: Johannesburg was built on a gold rush. But in the Isando Campus business park on the outskirts of South Africa’s financial centre, a much more precious substance is being piled up at an even more frenetic pace. This is the […]
Read more »Via Emerging World, an interesting report on the top emerging market brands: Every year, global consultancy Brand Finance launches its Global Top 500 Brands index. It’s a highly anticipated list that captures global headlines and spawns the occasional “top ten list” (guilty as charged, see below). They just put out their latest 2020 report at the virtual […]
Read more »Courtesy of The Financial Times, a report on Uruguay: Sandwiched between the giant economies of Brazil and Argentina, Uruguay has traditionally been at a disadvantage when it came to attracting foreign investment into its promising tech sector. But with the recent emergence of the country’s first unicorn and another company developing a sophisticated coronavirus app […]
Read more »Via Haikal Magazine, a look at the post–civil war boom in shark fishing that saved Congolese fishermen and their families is now drying up: As the midday heat begins to subside in the coastal city of Pointe-Noire in Republic of the Congo, eight sinewy fishermen shunt a rickety pirogue toward the gray Atlantic beneath a brooding […]
Read more »Via Bloomberg, an article on emerging market projections for 2021: Thailand and Russia are well placed to be among the emerging-market standouts that could beat expectations next year. That’s according to a Bloomberg study of 17 developing markets gauging their outlook for 2021 based on 11 indicators of economic and financial performance. Thailand topped the […]
Read more »Via The Asia Times, a report on Timor Leste where the Greater Sunrise gas field was supposed to lift the young nation out of poverty but that once hopeful vision is now dissipating: It was a bit rich for a leader who, less than five years ago, was personally stirring up a 10,000-strong crowd in protest […]
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