Research and Analytics
Research and Analytics
COVID-19 is taking its toll on the world, causing deaths, illnesses and economic despair. But how is the deadly virus impacting global poverty? Here we’ll argue that it is pushing about 40-60 million people into extreme poverty, with our best estimate being 49 million.
The COVID-19 pandemic could be a game changer for digital financial services. Low income households and small firms can benefit greatly from advances in mobile money, fintech services and online banking. Financial inclusion as a result of digital financial services can also boost economic growth. While the pandemic is set to increase use of these services, it has also posed challenges for the growth of the industry’s smaller players and highlighted unequal access to digital infrastructure. Several actions will need to be taken to ensure maximum inclusion going forward.
By Professor Chukwuma Charles Soludo/ Image Credit: WeeTracker This year 2020 begins a new decade that promises to be one of dreadful disruptions, with Africa holding the weakest end of the stick. In 2008/09, the global “great recession” was triggered by financial crisis in the US (world’s largest economy). Then, much of Africa was said […]
This article gives a brief summary of how the IMF expects the world to grow in 2020, highlight the top 10 countries to grow in 2020 (with special focus on Guyana), highlight countries that will fall the most in 2020, as well as give a special case study of selected African countries.
The 2020 Global Fintech Ranking by Findexable is the first fully global fintech index covering more than 7000 fintechs in more than 230 cities across 65 countries. In partnership with 18 fintech networks and associations in different countries and continents of the world, the Findexable Global Fintech Index City Rankings ranks 7000 fintechs across 230 […]
This research work tends to give brief analysis of the performance of the major stock exchange in Africa based on their index levels. It also gave a special preference to Nigeria by focusing on the stock performance of its stock exchange during the year under review.
Handedness refers to the more preferred hand of an individual, usually the better skilled hand. Society made me believe that there exist two groups: Right and Left handers. But I have been around long enough to know that this classification is nothing but a scam; at least in the part of the world where I come from. To tell the truth, there includes just one group and a bunch of ‘un-usuals’ who constitute a minority—A major minority.
On Wednesday 11 of December, the World’s largest integrated oil and gas company (and fourth largest integrated refiner in the world) officially listed on the Saudi Stock Exchange after its IPO by selling 1.5% (equivalent to 3 billion shares) of the company’s share capital ($1.7 trillion at valuation) to the public, thereby making it surpass the amount Alibaba raised in 2014 ($25 billion) as it raised a record $25.5 billion- Largest IPO in the history of mankind.
This article gives the list of the top 100 leading fintech cities in the world. It also gives a brief insight into the leading fintech cities in Africa as well as fintech in the United States.
According to the WEF, a country’s performance on the overall GCI results as well as each of its components is reported as a ‘progress score’ on a 0-to-100 scale, where 100 represents the ‘frontier’, an ideal state where an issue ceases to be a constraint to productivity growth. This means that the more a country moves closer to 100 points, the better it is for her. The 2019 edition of the report therefore focuses on 141 economies of the world which account for 99% of the world’s GDP.
