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Upwardly Mobile In Africa How basic cell phones are sparking economic hope and growth in emerging - and even non-emerging - nations.   |
BusinessWeek
July 15, 2010
Campbell & Smith |
Mobile Firms in Africa Get Spotty Reception Multinationals are drawn to Africa's 300 million people who lack mobile access. But poorer customers mean slower profit growth. |
Finance & Development
December 2011
Calestous Juma |
Africa's New Engine As Africa's middle class grows, policymakers should place a premium on regional economic integration and the associated investment in infrastructure, technical training, and support of entrepreneurs. |
BusinessWeek
February 2, 2004
Andy Reinhardt |
Africa: The Next Wide-Open Wireless Frontier In the sub-Sahara, companies big and small are rushing to sign up clients |
Fast Company
May 2008
Alex Halperin |
Google's Surfing Safari The search giant is betting that it can become synonymous with the Internet in places like strife-torn Kenya. But it has a long way to go. |
U.S. Banker
July 2008
Karen Krebsbach |
Waiting for the Call Cellphone banking is emerging as an important link that could bring the most basic financial services to the globe's billions of unbanked cellphone users. |
PC Magazine
May 1, 2009
Dan Costa |
One Cell Phone Per Child One laptop per child is a great idea, but it's the cell phone that's really changing the developing world. |
BusinessWeek
December 4, 2008
Jack Ewing |
South African Companies Unlock Sub-Saharan Africa Versed in the highs and lows of emerging-market development, SABMiller, Standard Bank, and others are expanding across Africa and beyond. |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2012
G. Pascal Zachary |
Africans Dial Up Innovation No longer content to import technology, Africans are using cellphones to spur indigenous innovation |
Finance & Development
September 2009 |
Dial Growth Handheld devices are enabling nascent economies to skip a generation of development. |
The Motley Fool
June 17, 2010
Tim Hanson |
The Way to Play Africa Africa is the continent with the most untapped potential. Will it ever be stable for U.S. investors? |
Food Processing
October 2011 |
Africa: The World's Next Great Economic Story Coca-Cola Co.'s Alexander Cummings recently spoke to Stanford University's Institute for Economic Policy Research and African Leadership Academy about Africa's growing economic power. |
HBS Working Knowledge
November 6, 2006
Martha Lagace |
How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI After the fall of apartheid, South Africa accepted the standard prescription for countries to receive more foreign direct investment. Yet FDI has been a mere trickle. Why? The answer may reside in the country's strong corporate environment. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
May 6, 2014
Adjei et al. |
Africa: The Lost Continent No More Driven by a rising GDP and calmer political and financial waters over the past decade, Africa's nascent healthcare sector is poised for a fresh surge in growth. |
CIO
April 1, 2011
Fred O'Connor |
Africans Use Mobile Phones for Roles Beyond Communicating In a continent with limited infrastructure, phones serve as income boosters, a teaching tool and wallets. |
Bank Technology News
August 2008
Krebsbach & Fest |
Big Calling Mobile phones have emerged as a critical way to bring financial services to the globe's legions of unbanked -- a billion of whom carry cellphones. |
BusinessWeek
September 30, 2010
Renee Bonorchis |
Africa Is Looking Like a Dealmaker's Paradise In the wake of $15 billion in African takeover deals since summer, more global companies are expected to buy into the continent. |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2006
Michael Klein |
Taking Care of Business Creating a better business environment is crucial for bolstering growth in Africa. |
InternetNews
June 2, 2005
Tim Gray |
Nokia Releases Two at Entry Level Nokia laid out its strategy to bring mobility to hot-growth markets with the introduction of the Nokia 1110 and Nokia 1600, two phones aimed at first-time users in developing regions, such as Africa. |
HBS Working Knowledge
March 8, 2004
Julia Hanna |
African CEOs: A View from the Top It's a market with 700 million people---but it's highly fragmented. Here is what executives in Africa have to say about business and career opportunities on the continent. |
Salon.com
May 28, 2001
Ben Barber |
Tough love for Africa Colin Powell gets a hero's welcome and tells Africa's entrenched rulers to step aside... |
Parameters
Winter 2005/2006
Francis V. Crupi |
Why the United States Should Robustly Support Pan-African Organizations This article presents a rationale for why it should be the policy of the United States to robustly support pan-African sub-regional organizations that seek to have Africans help themselves. |
BusinessWeek
February 5, 2007
Dexter Roberts |
China Mobile's Hot Signal China Mobile is the world's biggest cellular carrier. Now it's planning to get even bigger. |
Finance & Development
September 2008
David C. L. Nellor |
The Rise of Africa's "Frontier" Markets A number of sub-Saharan countries are beginning to attract investors to their financial markets |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2001
Evangelos A. Calamitsis |
The Need for Stronger Domestic Policies and International Support Globalization is a powerful engine of world prosperity, and it is certainly here to stay. Income disparities remain large. The basic issue is what policies and reforms are most likely to bring about sustainable economic growth for the benefit of all the peoples of the world. |
HBS Working Knowledge
December 6, 2004
Cynthia Churchwell |
An Entrepreneur's Journey in Africa Monique Maddy, who started and then closed a telecommunications business in Africa, has interesting insights into the challenges of entrepreneurship in developing countries in her new book, Learning to Love Africa: My Journey from Africa to Harvard Business School and Back. |
HBS Working Knowledge
March 8, 2004
Julia Hanna |
IT and Africa: Getting the Lay of the Land There is a cell phone boom in Africa, but the market for many other technologies is hit or miss, a panel of experts said. |
Parameters
November 2004
Mike Denning |
A Prayer for Marie: Creating an Effective African Standby Force While the Rwanda tragedy is unparalleled with regard to the killers' speed and "efficiency," there is nothing new about violence on the African continent. |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2001
S. Ibi Ajayi |
What Africa Needs to Do to Benefit from Globalization |
IEEE Spectrum
February 2013
R. Les Cottrell |
How Bad Is Africa's Internet? A decade long quest aims to pinpoint the Internet bottlenecks holding Africa back |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
The Struggle for Economic Growth in Africa In an effort to generate economic growth, African leaders are lobbying the world for investment capital, promising political and free-market reforms in return. The continent desperately needs outside capital to jump-start stagnant economies... |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2000
Ernesto Hernandez-Cata |
Raising Growth and Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa: What Can Be Done? Sub-Saharan Africa must increase economic growth to reduce poverty and improve living standards. This article discusses some obstacles to growth in the region, as well as some policy actions that would improve its prospects. |
Finance & Development
December 2011 |
Second Time Around Jeremy Clift profiles Nigeria's economic czar Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala |
Finance & Development
December 2011
Antoinette Sayeh |
The Quality of Growth The questions that continually nag at me concern the quality of this growth in sub-Saharan Africa. In particular, is it inclusive -- are the poor and the young benefiting -- and is it sustainable? |
Finance & Development
June 1, 2007
Harry G. Broadman |
Connecting Africa and Asia Improved Asian market access can boost Africa's exports, but Africa needs domestic reforms to fully capture the economic benefits |
Pharmaceutical Executive
May 1, 2012 |
Country Report: South Africa In just the past few years, South Africa has hit several key economic benchmarks demonstrating the country's upward trajectory. |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2006
Bio-Tchane & Christensen |
Right Time for Africa Africa needs to build on its recent success to catch up. A forward-looking reform agenda should aim to maintain macroeconomic stability, improve the business climate, promote trade, and, most important, strengthen fiscal institutions. |
The Motley Fool
February 14, 2007
Dale Baker |
Find the Right Emerging Market To succeed in foreign investing, learn how to spot a successful emerging economy. |
Linux Journal
June 2001
Wayne Marshall |
Algorithms in Africa Maybe the rush to market for spreading internet access across the globe isn't in anyone's best interest -- a report from the front... |
Finance & Development
December 2006 |
Letters to the Editor Corruption Taking Its Toll on Growth... A Missed Opportunity... Financial Sector is Key to Africa's Growth... |
Reason
July 2005
Melinda Ammann |
Cry the Beloved Continent The Shackled Continent: Power, Corruption, and African Lives, by Robert Guest posits that Africans are poor because they're poorly governed. |
Reason
October 2005
Ronald Bailey |
Data: Aiding and Indebting Despite the push to give to sub-Saharan African economies, evidence that aid boosts economic development is hard to come by. |
The Motley Fool
June 12, 2006
Bill Mann |
Investing World Cup: Africa and the Middle East What do Africa and the Middle East have in quantities that are unequaled anywhere else in the world? Potential. Investors, take note. |
Finance & Development
June 1, 2005
Birger Fredriksen |
Keeping the Promise What is holding up achieving primary education for all African children? |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2001
G.E. Gondwe |
Making Globalization Work in Africa There is no doubt that economic growth rates in sub-Saharan Africa have lagged far behind those of other regions and that Africa is the region least integrated into the global economy. |
InternetNews
March 21, 2007
Michael Hickins |
Mobile Payment Systems Get Traction New programs in Europe and Africa demonstrate the potential of cell phone-based payment systems. |
BusinessWeek
November 29, 2007
Roben Farzad |
High Returns--and Low Volatility? Africa's unlikely investment proposition is opening eyes. |
Fast Company
June 2008
Richard Behar |
Special Report: China in Africa (Part 6) That the West is losing the sub-Sahara to China does not come as news in Africa itself. |
BusinessWeek
October 4, 2004
Manjeet Kripalani |
Mobile Telecoms Find Nirvana India has become a red-hot market for cell-phone operators. |
The Motley Fool
December 6, 2006
Dale Baker |
MTN: A Cheap Double A rising stock shouldn't always demand a quick sale. South African cell phone operator MTN has doubled since 2004, but it's still a good buy today, thanks to cheap valuations, strong organic growth, and smart acquisitions. Too bad hardly anyone outside Johannesburg has ever heard of it. |
