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• The Fed’s QE Taper: For Emerging & Developing Markets, Forewarned Is Forearmed.

  By Lloney on July 30, 2013 • ( 0 )

  The US housing market in the run up to 2007 was booming but a large part of the booming mortgage market was based on what has come to be known as Sub-prime mortgages whose popularity increased markedly through securitisation in… Read More ›

• Is Africa Sitting Out The Gene Revolution?

  By Lloney on June 30, 2013 • ( 0 )

  Genetic Modified organisms are those whose genetic material has been engineered and modified through biotechnology such as recombinant DNA. The reasons for genetic modification are varied but in agriculture for example crop production, it is predominantly done to produce crops… Read More ›

• How Special Are Africa’s Enterprise Zones?

  By Lloney on May 31, 2013 • ( 2 )

  Enterprise Zones are areas set aside for diverse industrial development. They are created as facilitators to economic generation and growth of their parent countries which can also look forward to higher employment and increases to foreign direct investment (FDI). The… Read More ›

• Gold Or Bitcoin – It’s a matter of Trust.

  By Lloney on April 30, 2013 • ( 1 )

  As far back as 221BC during the reign of the first Chinese emperor, Qin Shihuangdi, the Chinese were using coins but they were not the originators of coins as historical references to a standardized and certified system of coinage is… Read More ›

• African eurobonds – An enchanted path to prosperity?

  By Lloney on March 13, 2013 • ( 0 )

  Two decades ago, African indebtedness was a major issue internationally and in 1996 a World Bank initiative extended to Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPCs) saw a slew of debts accumulated by corrupt and incompetent regimes written off to contribute the… Read More ›

• Taxing Mobile Telephony In Africa – Throttling The Golden Goose?

  By Lloney on February 23, 2013 • ( 0 )

  Although mobile phones are ubiquitous in developed economies, penetration rates are still lagging in emerging markets, especially Africa. But the continent has come a long way from the days when telecommunications was a luxury and a mobile phone is now… Read More ›

• Change Afoot In African Music Market

  By Lloney on January 30, 2013 • ( 0 )

  According to the International Federation of Phonograpic Industry report 2012, only just 6% of recorded music sales in South Africa was in the form of digital media in 2011, leaving the rest wholesomely in physical format. When this statistic is… Read More ›

• African MVNOs – Are We There Yet?

  By Lloney on January 20, 2013 • ( 0 )

  Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs) are wholesale intermediaries reselling packaged access purchased from Mobile Network Operators (MNO). They buy bandwith in bulk discounts from MNO (Mobile Network Operators), the owners of  both spectrum and the network infrastructure, to sell at… Read More ›

• Africa’s Second Coming of The Internet

  By Lloney on December 16, 2012 • ( 1 )

  Although a map of Africa would show that most countries have 2G and 3G networks operational, Africa still lags behind the rest of the world in mobile internet as across the continent only approximately 5% of Africans are subscribed to… Read More ›

• VMK Announces Elikia

  By Lloney on December 1, 2012 • ( 1 )

  

  In what can be taken as a sign Africa is not going to be left behind in the tech-revolution sweeping across the world, Elikia, the Congolese made smartphone has been launched. In the smartphone world, differenciation is gold dust and… Read More ›

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