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 ...
