By Godfred Zina Despite Africa’s economy rising to $2.8 trillion in 2024, there continue to be economic disparities among the 54 African countries, including South Sudan. With...
By Gregory Simpkins When we read articles about the economic health of countries, we often encounter one recurring item: Gross Domestic Product (GDP). It supposedly describes...
Liberia’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth is expected to accelerate to 5.4 percent in 2024, up from an estimated 3.7 percent in 2023. According to data...
Bloomberg | There is no place like home for African governments shut out of global debt markets by crises that have made foreign borrowing too expensive....
Economies of Angola, Nigeria and South Africa were expected to come out of recession this year.
Kenya’s gross domestic product was estimated to be 25 percent bigger after the authorities changed the base calculation year to 2009 from 2001, sending the east...
The second-best dollar-bond rally in Africa this month is signaling growing speculation that Ghana will seek aid from the International Monetary Fund as the government struggles to close its budget...
Africa is expected to lead population expansion in the next half century that will help spur regional economic growth. “Of all global regions, Africa will lead...
Nigeria overtook South Africa as Africa’s largest economy after a rebasing calculation almost doubled its GDP to more than $500 billion. Gross domestic product (GDP) for...
The World Bank has rated the Bahamas as the wealthiest Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country. The financial institution said that the Bahamas is most economically prosperous country...
Dangote Cement’s gross revenues grew by 29 percent to US$1.82 billion for the third quarter 2013, up from US$1.41 billion recorded in the corresponding period in...
By Carlos Lopes This year Africa celebrates fifty years since the founding of the Organization of African Unity (OAU); never before has the continent been so...
South Africa is about to be seriously upstaged on the African continent. For several years economists have been waiting for a promised revision to Nigeria’s economic...
The changing fortunes of Africa has become a theme of investment conferences, magazine covers, and the just concluded summit of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China...
The east African country of Tanzania’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew by US$4.5 billion last year compared to 2011, new economic data showed. The March 2013...
Haiti is projected to lead the Caribbean in gross domestic growth (GDP) growth in 2013, according to a new report from the United Nations Economic Commission...
By 2050, Nigeria will be the most populous country in the world and the African economy will be bigger than that of the United States and...
The economy of Haiti is projected to grow 6 percent in 2012, followed by 7.5 percent gross domestic product (GDP) growth in 2013, according to the...
Sierra Leone is a country on the rise. Sierra Leone suffered a decade-long brutal war that ended in 2002. The country’s gross domestic product GDP is...
(Reuters) – “There’s more to life than gross domestic product (GDP),” is a favorite refrain of left-leaning social commentators and environmental activists. But when it comes...
While Jamaica saw positive gross domestic product (GDP) growth in 2011, following three consecutive years of decline, its recovery remains “fragile,” according to the International Monetary...
Sir Dwight Venner, Governor of the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank. PHOTO/File (Jamaica Observer) – Deeper economic union is at the centre of the Eastern Caribbean’s attempts...
Governor General Sir Patrick Allen said young men must be taught character traits such as responsibility, perseverance, discipline, honesty, courage, fairness, respect, integrity, citizenship and patriotism....
