All articles in 'Finance and Banking'
Although the lack of sophistication of the African financial systems and markets may have helped blu...
2nd June 2009There is growing recognition that the dispersion of credit risk by banks to a broader and more diver...
8th June 2009We are doing away with sending our money through banks in UK, USA, China, that was taking about five...
8th June 2009While seeking to obtain as much external financial support as it can get, Africa must also look inwa...
8th June 2009Financial systems generally develop along the lines of economic structures and relationships. Given...
12th June 2009The source of this strong growth in Uganda has continued to come from the industrial and services se...
15th June 2009Throwing big monies to inefficient (if not corrupt well connected) firms in the name of a stimulus p...
16th June 2009The most important factor in selecting a bank today is the ability to create a deep relationship; th...
23rd June 2009When governments protect public enterprises by keeping out potential competitors or making taxpayers...
23rd June 2009There are differences between the expectations of home countries and host countries (and their regul...
25th June 2009When the global financial crisis started, the idea of uncoupling developed economies from those of l...
28th June 2009If Nigeria pays attention to educational diplomas-which only contribute about 20% of what is needed...
6th July 2009Stores and supermarkets are overflowing with products, a rare phenomenon for many years under the ev...
7th July 2009Instead of fearing, blaming, hoping, maybe the best thing to do is to accept the fact that it has ha...
14th July 2009Mr Biti's efforts are meant to reverse the impact of economic meltdown and to promote more economic...
27th July 2009Countries which are not willing to let the exchange rate fluctuate need a large cushion of reserves...
28th July 2009Every woman, whether single, married, divorced or widowed ought to take immediate control of her own...
7th August 2009The world economy may soon stop shrinking, but recovery will not return us to the boom years that in...
11th August 2009If African countries were to adopt only one policy to boost economic growth and improve macroeconomi...
7th September 2009Rating is a not pure science and will never be when most of what happens in the world is seen along...
1st October 2009Debt forgiveness grants aid to those recipients that have best proven their ability to misuse that a...
19th October 2009During the past decades, many academics, professionals and policy makers (including the government)...
27th October 2009The roles of the IMF should be reviewed to adapt to a new international financial environment which...
2nd November 2009Attempts by donors to impose their organizational structures on Africa create confusion - and force...
10th November 2009One of the lessons to be drawn from the financial crisis is that we must henceforth refrain from ove...
23rd November 2009No system in the world is sustainable if it is not underpinned by a sense of morals, ethics and valu...
16th November 2009Why Banking Innovation? Innovation is a powerful weapon of differentiation for financial instituti...
14th December 2009It is private investment, not consumption that makes for the competitiveness of an economy.
8th January 2010South Africa is fast approaching a watershed moment as Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan prepares for...
18th January 2010Economics is a dismal science because of the difficulty in getting the timing of monetary and fiscal...
26th January 2010