12/22/2022
The minimum wage in South Africa has been a contentious issue in light of the debilitating unemployment faced by everyday South Africans and the fact that the majority of the population is impoverished.
12/19/2022
This has led to many to ask whether the country would be better off with or without Ramaphosa.
12/16/2022
More investments in Africa could see the Biden administration reduce China and the EU's dominance in trade with Africa
12/15/2022
Without renewed efforts, nearly 492 million Africans will be left in extreme poverty with at least 350 million still in that condition in 2050.
12/15/2022
The assessment, launched on the sidelines of the UN Biodiversity Summit (COP15) in Montreal, Canada, is based on the 6th National Reports on biodiversity submitted by African countries 2018-2020.
12/14/2022
Cumulatively, for the first 10 months of 2022, the total number of advertised jobs declined by 9.5% to 26,595 from 29,380 recorded during the same period in 2021.
12/14/2022
The latest figure comes at a time when the persisting load shedding, rising cost of living and protracted strike action by Transnet workers during October impacted the economy.
12/13/2022
The PUNCH had in an earlier report, quoted Alex Sienaert, World Bank’s lead economist for Nigeria, as saying that in 2023, debt servicing will gulp 123.4 per cent of the country’s total revenue.
12/12/2022
Under new CEO Kennedy Bungane the institution plans to list by 2025 as a lender ‘for the people, by the people, serving the people’
12/09/2022
Ruto rode into office in September on the promise of alleviating high costs of living for citizens, which could put pressure on the budget, the bank said.
12/07/2022
Revenue authority plans measures to reduce piling uncollected revenue
12/06/2022
The bank said its interest-earning assets increased by "mid-single digits" thanks to selling more loans.
12/02/2022
The Summit, which is a major maritime event in the year, was themed “Igniting the Blue Economy in Nigeria”
12/02/2022
Local unit weakens as much as 4% as market reacts to political instability after Phala Phala report
12/01/2022
Remittance out turns will depend on the balancing of increasing needs for support from the African overseas labor force, and the availability of incomes in host countries to be remitted.
11/30/2022
He added that industries thrive locally when they compete on a global platform urging stakeholders in the sector to team up with the government to ensure that Nigeria becomes a global player.
11/29/2022
Industry experts say small insurers are struggling to retain and hire actuaries due to higher costs associated while multinationals have also been faced with the exit of their employees.
11/28/2022
While this position by the central bank means indebted consumers are likely to remain under pressure in the medium term, the situation is not without its positive news.
11/25/2022
Top performers not necessarily those with the biggest economies, but countries that generate high manufacturing value-added per capita
11/25/2022
The results show that the third quarter’s growth was lower than the second quarter’s growth of 3.54 percent and the same quarter’s growth of 4.03 percent from the previous year.