Nigeria’s stock market continues to climb, as investor confidence rises and the economy benefits from wide-ranging reforms. At the time of writing on June 10, the All Share index was approaching 40,000, the highest level seen since late 2008. Since we initiated our bullish view on the All Share index in March 2012, the market… [Read more]
Facing weak growth in traditional markets, the world’s largest beer companies are expanding their presence in fast growing emerging economies, where rising incomes are boosting alcohol consumption. Could Africa and Latin America be the next big growth markets for the global drinks industry? In this week’s podcast, we speak to Shonil Chande, BMI’s head of… [Read more]
The 6,000 MW Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Blue Nile River will be the biggest hydropower project in Africa when completed in 2018. It is part of an ambitious 25-year plan to ramp up hydroelectric capacity to 37,000 MW by 2037. Ethiopia is keen to establish itself as the ‘water tower of Africa’. Ethiopia’s Rationale For… [Read more]
This week, Risk Watchdog discusses beneficiation in the mining sector with Ed Coughlan, the head of BMI’s mining analysis research team. Concerned that local populations are not benefiting from a mining boom, a number of governments in the developing world are seeking to boost employment by demanding that miners build value-added refineries and processing facilities… [Read more]
Business Monitor International (BMI) has just published a new special report ‘Frontier Mining: After The Super-Cycle’, which examines the prospects for mining investment in frontier markets in light of the deteriorating outlook for mineral prices. The report looks beyond the current uncertainty surrounding the mining industry and outlines the case for further frontier mining investment,… [Read more]
With nearly 170 million people and a GDP of around US$300bn, Nigeria has a larger population and economy than the 30 smallest African countries combined. Given Nigeria’s size and diversity, it is important to examine the internal regions of West Africa’s largest economy. In this week’s Business Monitor International podcast, our Nigeria analyst, Gregan Anderson,… [Read more]
Afghanistan’s economy is heading for a sharp slowdown, as we explain in Business Monitor Online and the next edition of our monthly South Asia Monitor publication. The Afghan economy has grown at an impressive clip, averaging around 9% or so over the past decade, but this is unsustainable, given that the world’s major powers are… [Read more]
