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Bridging the Digital Divide to Scale Up the COVID-19 Recovery
Digitalization has in the past few years enabled developing countries, in particular, to leapfrog on financial inclusion. Countries like Kenya, Ghana, Rwanda and Tanzania have made great advances in connecting their citizens to…
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Fallacy of an African Giant
This exposition tries to carry out a comparative analysis between Nigeria and selected economies in Africa. South Africa in Southern Africa, Egypt from Northern Africa, Kenya from East Africa and our neighbour (Ghana)…
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COVID-19 & Cheap Oil: An SSA Market Update
Being what we learnt from the RenCap Securities Conference Call held on 25th March 2020 According to the global chief economist of RenCap, Charles Robertson, the COVID-19 outbreak in Italy shows that the…
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How Competitive is the Nigerian Economy Compared to its Peers in Africa?
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…