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FACRA: How Investors Can Help Build SMEs in Angola – The Missing Middle
By any measure, small and medium sized enterprises (SME’s) form a crucial part of any nation’s economic success. Typically, SME’s range from sole proprietorships to mid-sized companies and ordinary partnerships. These businesses rarely make the headlines but they form the
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World Bank Report: Digital Payments Vital To Economic Growth
Gates Foundation and Better Than Cash Alliance urge governments to embrace digital financial services, offers concrete action steps. Integrating digital payments into the economies of emerging and developing nations addresses crucial issues of broad economic growth and individual financial empowerment,
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PwC Nigeria: Does Size Really Matter? Economic and Fiscal Implications of Nigeria’s Rebased GDP
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is an internationally recognised measure of economy size and strength. It is importance to have up-to-date data so the rebasing is a step in the right direction. It is expected to make planning and investment decisions
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Otaviano Canuto, World Bank Group: Commodity Super Cycle to Stick Around a Bit Longer
Some analysts have predicted that the commodity price boom has played itself out. However, natural resource-based commodity prices (with the exception of shale gas and its downward pressure on US natural gas prices) have remained relatively high over the last
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The Euro – A Paradox Checks Into Hotel California
It could have been conceived a bit more thoughtfully, but as a project the European common currency is not altogether farfetched or indeed destined for failure. The euro was specifically created to offer an alternative to the erstwhile all-mighty US
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The European Conundrum
The European Union is an interesting project that – once logic is duly applied – must end up with the foundation of a United States of Europe (USE). Strangely enough, very few of the union’s citizens actually want to live
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MIGA (World Bank): Islamic Finance – A Growing Source of Capital for the Developing World
The World Bank has its eye on Islamic finance, and with reason. Islamic finance’s recent globalization – in both Muslim and non-Muslim countries alike – has increased the total size of its assets to around $1.5 trillion. In both the
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Ernst & Young, Argentina: The List from Black to White – Argentina Redefines Income Tax Law
Introduction To further our previous contribution – Tax Havens: The Argentine Government Issues a New Tax Regulation on Low or Nil Taxation countries (CFI Spring 2014) – we can now provide an update based on legislation published during the last
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Norton Rose Fulbright: EU Sets New Financial Laws for Non-EU Entities
Introduction The Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) is one of the cornerstones of EU financial services law setting out which investment services and activities should be licensed across the EU and the organisational and conduct standards that those providing
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Grant Thornton UAE: Bridging the Gap in Private M&A Transactions
The increased appetite for mergers and acquisitions (M&A) is prevalent at both a regional and global level. This trend presents plenty opportunity. However trials and tribulations may precede success when considering the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) current market
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