Into the Blue
Namibia’s plans for seabed mining demonstrate some of the opportunities and challenges...
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Category: AIF Issue 43
Getting natural resources governance right
Mining development in Africa will persist in doing more harm than good unless stakeholders commit...
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Models of public-private partnerships: How (not) to do it
Good governance structures, not the natural-resource ownership model, are key to ensuring...
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Local Content in the Oil and Gas Sector: Will Tanzania follow Nigeria’s lead?
As in Nigeria, there are concerns in Tanzania that elite accumulation strategies are determining the shape of local-content policies.
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A shark’s tale
European commercial trawlers are encroaching on west African fishing grounds, challenging...
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Working the streets of New York
African traders bring generations of élan and experience to a precarious business in the Big Apple...
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EDITORIAL: The lifeboat of informality
African governments and their formal business sectors often hold up the informal sector as the...
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Tapping into local knowledge
Governments need to see informal business people as economic actors who are rational and...
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Africa’s real economy
Global competition and the active downsizing of formal jobs force most Africans to look...
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The rise of digital money
Mobile money helps Africa’s informal operators to conduct safe transactions – and keep their...
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The transformation of Windhoek’s Eveline Street
A developing leisure economy is changing a downtown area in Namibia for the better South...
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Help, don’t hinder
Governments and formal businesses must recognise that informal businesses need to be more...
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