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Monday, 15 June 2009 |
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SME financiers Grofin argue that debt is more suited as a financing mechanism for small and medium enterprises in sub-Saharan Africa as it meets entrepreneurs’ demands and allows an easier exit. Rachel Keeler takes a closer look at their business model.
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Friday, 12 June 2009 |
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The government’s bandwidth subsidy, financed by the World Bank, was made on the assumption that costly connectivity was the key obstacle to developing a local BPO industry – but attracted the wrong players.
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Wednesday, 10 June 2009 |
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Zain are selling their Africa operations. And I’m taking this oddly personally. By Andrea Bohnstedt.
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Tuesday, 09 June 2009 |
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At the top of the chart for best global get-rich-quick schemes, somewhere behind the Donald Trump and Chinese models and just before South Korea’s 20-year authoritarian industrialisation plan, sits the Indian outsourcing bonanza. In less than two decades, India has grown from rice farmer to undisputed king of the offshore outsourcing industry, estimated to be worth USD110bn globally by 2010. And just as Kenya and Uganda are so fond of invoking the Asian Tiger model in their own industrial visions, so the two countries have also adopted the outsourcing dream as their own: if India can do it, why not East Africa? By Rachel Keeler.
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Thursday, 04 June 2009 |
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Coffee break grumblings at the recent EuroFinance workshop showed that businesses in Kenya are under pressure from both the global crisis and Kenya’s domestic issues. Uhuru Kenyatta, in his opening speech, confidently spoke of the Kenyan government’s firm intention to help business – but not just anti-corruption campaigners Mars Group are wondering if resources for a fiscal stimulus are being sidetracked by ‘typos’ and similar mishaps.
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Wednesday, 03 June 2009 |
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At Glopac’s Africa Petroleum Frontiers day, Jarch Capital’s Phillipe Heilberg banked on Southern Sudan’s quick independence to capitalise on his newly acquired assets. By Andrea Bohnstedt.
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Wednesday, 20 May 2009 |
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As a regional analyst, Rachel Keeler spends a fair amount of time sifting through Google news alerts and following what sometimes turn out to be bizarre East African media trails. This week a puzzling bit of reporting caught her eye from the op-ed columns of Tanzania’s Daily News.
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Wednesday, 20 May 2009 |
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In this issue: Appointments, NEMA environmental impact assessments, CCK license applications, and KPLC fuel surcharge for May 2009.
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Wednesday, 20 May 2009 |
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A government that turned to the stock exchange for privatisations, an automated trading platform that made trading much easier, widespread retail investor enthusiasm and international investor’s interest in ‘frontier markets’ – companies listed on the NSE never had so much attention as in recent years. But do they know how to communicate with their existing and prospective investors? In this three-part series, we discuss the practices and challenges of investor relations management in Kenya and the EAC.
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