Tag Archives: Sub-Saharan Africa

Bridging the digital skills gap(Moneyweb)

AI could contribute up to $30 billion to Sub-Saharan Africa’s economy by 2030, according to Google’s Digital Opportunity of Africa report. This is a remarkable prospect for a continent still navigating its digital transformation – a crucial shift toward achieving rapid economic growth. However, the growing gap in digital skills hinders our progress, particularly as […]
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SMEs require a banking relationship, even in this digital age (BT)

The World Bank estimates that small businesses constitute 90 percent of all businesses worldwide. In sub-Saharan Africa alone there are 44 million small businesses, with small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) accounting for 60 percent of jobs. In South Africa there are approximately 3.2 million SMEs, which make them the backbone of the economy with a […]
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Empowering African businesses for secure African payments

Mastercard and Onafriq (formerly MFS Africa), a pan-African payments company, have joined forces to introduce secure, cost-effective, and innovative payment solutions to consumers and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) across the continent. Africa’s mobile money sector stands as one of the most established and rapidly expanding fintech industries globally. According to The State of the Industry Report on […]
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NEW GIBS article: Stepping stones across a fast-flowing river: supporting emerging scholars from merging markets by Prof Helena Bernard

Abstract International business as a field values perspectives from various contexts, but scholars from emerging markets face a number of often-unseen challenges preventing them from fully contributing to the field. This study aims to explain those challenges and what the author has done to manage them. Design/methodology/approach This is a Reflexive piece in which the […]
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Development as diffusion: manufacturing productivity and Sub-Saharan Africa’s missing middle / CGDEV.org White paper

GIBS Information Centre / GIBSIC‘s insight: Article by Geld, Meyer, Ramachandran –   “..  .we address the political economy of the complex and often difficult relations between government and business in small concentrated SSA economies. In this context, we consider the incentives to reform the business climate. On the side of government, one strand of […]
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