Recently added articles from Market Africa Mid-East:
Ghana's economy benefits from increasing stability.
Nov 01, 2007 ... In the May 2007 edition of its African Economic Outlook (AEO), the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) says the following about Ghana: "The economy seems to be on the cusp of becoming an emerging market." Unquestionably, as the graph above vividly shows, ...
Walk-in clinics.
Nov 01, 2007 ... Two contemporary retailing ideas are making healthcare distribution in parts of Africa more effective. Both programs are in the development stage, and both are showing signs of success. The first idea borrowed from current retail practice is franchising. A posting on the Forbes ...
Tanzania stable and making progress.(Brief article)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Two recent Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) reports provide a fascinating look at one of Africa's more puzzling markets--puzzling in the sense that the country is richly endowed with natural resources, has a stable government and a clearly socially sophisticated population. And yet it ...
Namibia portrayed as an underachiever.(Brief article)
Nov 01, 2007 ... In a wide ranging, August 10, 2007 interview in The Namibian (Windhoek), Namibia's biggest daily newspaper, a member of Namibia's parliament took note of the disappointing performance of the country's economy in recent years. Macroeconomic indicators appear to describe a robust economy ....
UAE is stable and rich.(United Arab Emirates)(Brief article)
Nov 01, 2007 ... An October 2007, United Arab Emirates (UAE) Country Risk Assessment, published by the Australian Government's Export Finance and Insurance Corporation (EFIC) (Sydney), was generally approving of the country's current status. "At the national level," says the EFIC, "the UAE operates as a ...
Consumer debt up sharply in SA.
Nov 01, 2007 ... In an August 14, 2007 review of consumer indebtedness in South Africa, the market research firm Euromonitor (London) said that the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) was increasingly concerned about increases in consumer debt. The review was posted on Euromonitor's website. The ...
Nigeria gains but structural mire persists.
Nov 01, 2007 ... Growth in sub-Saharan Africa's second largest economy [after South Africa] so far this year is far below the government's target of 10 percent," says an October 5, 2007 Reuters report filed from Lagos. Citing Nigeria's central bank as its source, Reuters said that the Nigerian ...
Morocco stable following elections.
Nov 01, 2007 ... The political situation in Morocco garnered a fair amount of attention as far back as January 2007 when Foreign Policy (Washington) listed the country's (then) upcoming September 2007 elections as worthy of note. The well respected journal is published by the Carnegie Endowment for ...
Political chaos undermines Lebanon's economic future.
Aug 01, 2007 ... The news out of Lebanon--both economically and politically--is grim. Much of the commentary has to do with the convoluted internal power struggle tinged with the assertion of influence by Lebanon's neighbors as well as the interests of various global elements. Lebanon still ...
Milk.
Aug 01, 2007 ... Southern Africa is in the midst of a serious milk supply shortfall. The drought of the past few years has caused production problems, which are mainly to blame for the shortages. According to the Oxford Business Group's economic briefing South Africa (July 26, 2007, Vol. 76), ...
Jordan should energize its reform process.
Aug 01, 2007 ... The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace through the Carnegie Middle East Center published a report in July 2007 titled: "Rethinking Economic Reform in Jordan." According to the report, Jordan has a long history of reform beginning with a severe economic crisis in 1989. The idea at ...
Food crisis in Lesotho.
Aug 01, 2007 ... The tiny Kingdom of Lesotho--an enclave in Southern Africa completely surrounded by South Africa--like many countries in the region is experiencing extreme drought. The drought has seriously threatened the country's food security, and doubled the price of staple foods such as maize ....
Nigerian auto sales steady.
Aug 01, 2007 ... The market research publisher Business Monitor International (BMI) released a report on the Nigerian automotive sector on May 10, 2007. Among the report's conclusions were the fact that automotive sales would track the progress--or lack of it--in the Nigerian economy. BMI said, ...
A serious setback in the DRC.(Democratic Republic of the Congo )
Aug 01, 2007 ... At the end of April 2007, Wesgro, a trade development agency in South Africa, issued a report on the results of a visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The advice to members was succinct: "The DRC is not a market for the faint hearted." This is all the more true ...
Botswana faces an array of problems.
Aug 01, 2007 ... One of the problems that developing countries face is a balancing act involving natural resources and the country's industry and service sectors. The dilemma comes down to being able to quickly develop and export commodities, as opposed to developing indigenous sources of manufactured ...
Namibia worries about inflation.
Aug 01, 2007 ... Namibia's high per capita income in relation to other African countries (see chart below) reflects the success of its extractive industries as opposed to the strength of its consumer base. In fact, Namibia has one of the biggest income gaps in the world. For example, one ...
Slowing South Africa retail sales ease inflation worries.
Jun 01, 2007 ... In June 2006, the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) was confronted by a consumer spending surge that threatened to destabilize the SARB's sound management of the country's inflation. Between June 2006 and February 2007, the SARB raised interest rates 200 basis points (2.0 percent). The ...
Mobile phones and healthcare in Africa.
Jun 01, 2007 ... Increasingly, mobile phones are being seen as a supportive tool for distributing higher quality healthcare in Africa. Data collection, for example, can be used to check the spread of diseases. In the February 2007 newsletter of The United States President's Emergency Plan for ...
Rapid growth forecast for Israel.(Brief article)
Jun 01, 2007 ... The Bank of Israel (BOI) says that the country's economy is "back to rapid growth," following an annualized GDP expansion of 7.3 percent during the final quarter of 2006. In its report, titled, "Recent Economic Developments," published on May 9, 2007, the BOI also said that two specific ...
No improvement in Zimbabwe's dire straits.(Brief article)
Jun 01, 2007 ... The best the Zimbabwe government seems to be able to do is to "tinker" with issues that have no direct bearing on the country's desperate situation. The rate of inflation reached 2,200 percent in March 2007. This is just one of many indications of the economic collapse that has enveloped ...