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Five Lessons Evergrande Taught Us About The Chinese Economy

By Abdulazeez KurangaPosted on September 28, 2021Posted in Africa & World EconomyTagged China, Debt, Evergrande, Growth, Lehman brothers, Real estate, TradeNo Comments

The Evergrande story is bigger than just one company. It’s about China’s unsustainable model of economic growth, which has relied on endless investment and a mad, debt-fueled development frenzy in recent years. That model helped China soar, but the country is now experiencing some turbulence. Last week, some alarmist observers were calling this China’s “Lehman moment” — a reference to the collapse of Lehman Brothers that preceded the 2008 financial crisis — but China-focused economists argue that’s overblown.

How to Tax in Asia’s Digital Age

By Abdulazeez KurangaPosted on September 15, 2021Posted in Africa & World EconomyTagged Asia, China, Digital age, e-Commerce, Fintech, Japan, Pandemic, tax, TradeNo Comments

Asia alone has roughly two billion internet users, with considerable room to grow. Asia’s advanced and emerging market economies have several locally headquartered tech giants—including Alibaba, JD.com, Tencent, Rakuten—and host foreign tech giants such as Facebook. A new set of agreed global tax reforms will change where these tech giants and other global giants pay taxes.

Biden vs. Biden on China

By Joshua OlorunsaiyePosted on November 24, 2020Posted in Africa & World EconomyTagged Biden, China, Trump, United StatesNo Comments

If Biden talked about China in 2020 like he did back in 2000, he might have lost the election. Three-quarters of Americans now have an unfavorable view of the country — up from about a third in the early 2000s. China, which has an economy 12 times larger than it was in 2000, is now a boogeyman. Trade with China may have slashed costs for American consumers and created countless new jobs in various sectors, but — as organized labor warned back in 2000 — it also destroyed huge numbers of blue-collar jobs.

[INFOGRAPHICS] Cash As A % Of Total Payments(Selected Countries)

By Joshua OlorunsaiyePosted on September 27, 2020Posted in AnalyticsTagged China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Nigeria, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, United StateNo Comments

Cashless policy a myriad in Nigeria payment transactions amongst other countries.

China and the Burgeoning African Debt Crisis

By Aminu MusaPosted on September 24, 2020Posted in Africa & World EconomyTagged Africa, Angola, China, COVID-19, Crisis, Debt, Global Financial Crisis, ZambiaNo Comments

Contrary to the swirling rumors on African social media and in the local press about the supposed imminent danger of Chinese asset seizures in Zambia, it’s not the Chinese that are the problem here… it’s bondholders on Wall Street and in The City.

[INFOGRAPHICS] China’s Quarterly Growth Rate Overtime

By Adebisi SamuelPosted on July 17, 2020Posted in AnalyticsTagged China, Growth, IMF, Infographics, Real GDP, RecessionNo Comments

China’s latest quarterly growth rate shows that the country has averted a recession in the first half of the year as real GDP growth rate printed at +3.2% in Q2’20 compared to -6.8% recorded in Q1’20. China looks to be recovering in our view and in line with the IMF projection, the country will not […]

[INFOGRAPHICS] Top 10 Banks in the World

By Adebisi SamuelPosted on July 14, 2020Posted in AnalyticsTagged Banks, CEO, China, ICBC, Japan, United StatesNo Comments

Based on Tier-1 capital base, ICBC remains the biggest bank in the world followed by the China Construction Bank and the Agricultural Bank of China. We note that the first 4 biggest banks based on tier-1 capital are located in China while the next 5 are based in the United States and Mitsubishi financial group […]

[INFOGRAPHICS] H1’20 Stock Market Returns in Asia

By Abdulazeez KurangaPosted on July 13, 2020Posted in AnalyticsTagged Asia, China, Equities, Infographics, market, Stock MarketNo Comments

China is the only country that recorded positive returns in its equities market in the first half of 2020.

IMF WEO: How the World will Grow in the Great Lock Down of 2020

By Abdulazeez KurangaPosted on April 19, 2020Posted in AnalyticsTagged Africa, China, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Global Pandemic, Guyana, IMF, Nigeria, WorldNo Comments

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.

COVID-19: Why Nigeria is Likely to Record Increased Number of Cases in Coming Weeks

By Abdulazeez KurangaPosted on April 1, 2020Posted in ArticlesTagged China, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Nigeria, Pandemic, South AfricaNo Comments

The Virus which was declared a global pandemic by the WHO on March 11, 2020, has had impact into all markets and economies of the world. With 853,799 cases recorded and over 42,000 deaths, it has a mortality rate of 4.92% as at March 31, 2020. It is now present in virtually all countries of […]

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