China’s New Development Model and Implications of Long-Term Demand for Base Metals

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China’s rapid growth over the past ten years has made it the largest consumer of industrial metals (steel, copper and zinc). In 2011, China accounted for close to 50% of global consumption for base metals. However, recent studies have cautioned … Continue reading

The Expansion of Chinese Influence in Africa: Opportunities & Risks

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“China’s trade with Africa has also grown steadily during the past decade reaching USD160 billion in 2011 from just USD9 billion in 2000. China’s share in Africa’s total trade has been phenomenal, rising to 13% from 3% a decade ago” Continue reading

Are African Statistics a tragedy?

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The recent rebasing of the GDPs of a number of African countries, including famously the doubling of Nigeria’s economy to half a trillion USD in 2014, has also raised interest globally in Africa’s data Continue reading

Do not let Africa Unconformity to Western Standards Stop You From Doing Business There. Here’s Why:

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One evening in July, Lazard banker Matthieu Pigasse was in Congo’s capital city of Brazzaville trying to catch the last ferry across the Congo River for meetings in Kinshasa. In September, Lazard announced that Pigasse—who has advised on some of … Continue reading

How The US Investment Community is Investing in Africa and Where to get these ETFs and Mutual Funds

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  The United States Of America investment community is waking up to the African growth story.  Doubtful as usual and suspicious of all Not Made in America, they are taking cautionary baby steps approaches but at last they are definitively now open … Continue reading

Serie 4: Other great paths to successful business ideas in Africa

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So here are some other great ideas to successful business ideas in Africa following Serie 3 blog which was my most clicked blog of 2013. Some of you emailed me to expand so here we go: Path #4 – Closely watch … Continue reading