Economics
Uber – an app that links private taxi drivers with customers – has encountered several roadblocks around the world ...
Africa Present and Future
Several African business leaders have warned me that we foreigners may easily misunderstand some clues that are critical for business. In particular, we may easily miss the role that the informal economy plays in most African countries. Official statistics may be misleading as they don't include informal economic activities. Let me give you an example.…
Africa Present and Future
Last week I moved from Nigeria to Kenya, where I'm being hosted by Strathmore Business School (SBS), Strathmore University. Just as I got out of the plane, I could feel a difference: a nice freeze of fresh air, as opposed to the mass of humid, hot air that greeted me in Lagos. Weather played an important…
Economics
For the first time since the beginning of the crisis, the Spanish government faces lower borrowing costs that the U.S. ...