Latin America Infrastructure Project Finance: the top 100
Latin America Infrastructure Project Finance: the top 100Brazil, Mexico, Peru and Colombia account for two-thirds of the top 100 infrastructure finance projects in Latin America this year, which...
View ArticleWhat Peru’s electricity market says about its economic prospects
What Peru’s electricity market says about its economic prospectsDuring a project a few years ago in Ghana, a government official there told me that one of the unofficial ways his agency attempted to...
View ArticleLinking mobile data speed with economic outlook, performance, growth
Linking mobile data speed with economic outlook, performance, growthThe mobile revolution is just getting started. That’s the big meta-takeaway to me from “Maximizing Mobile”, a World Bank report out...
View ArticleChart of the day: Where Finance and Arts collide (or not)
Chart of the day: Where Finance and Arts collide (or not)From a couple of University of Amsterdam researchers, an interesting visual expression of the relationship between global financial centers and...
View ArticleOn navigating the choppy waters of logistics, supply chain and customer...
On navigating the choppy waters of logistics, supply chain and customer relationsBEWARE: the less sexy something sounds, the more important it probably is. And so it is with the practical realities of...
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Rapid Growth Markets: Behold THE FUTURE
I’ve just spent way too much time playing with Ernst & Young’s interactive spider graph thingy that allows you to compare their 25 “rapid-growth” markets across a range of macroeconomic indicators....
View ArticleHeineken needs better roads, more electricity for brewing beer in Africa
Siep Hiemstra, Heineken’s President for Africa & Middle East, discusses Africa strategy for the brewer’s 57 plants in 20 countries across the continent and similarities between Africa today and...
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Chart of the day: Undersea Cables serving Mobile Africa
Leave it to the World Bank to come up with this one: In typically unwieldy fashion, this comes from the recently released, “eTransform Africa: The Transformational Use of Information and Communication...
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Map Of The Day: Emerging and Frontier Markets Dominate Global Reserves of Key...
Why does it not surprise me that a map showing commodities reserves of emerging and frontier markets would have come from a Glencore report? Looking at it in these terms kind of raises an obvious...
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Know Your Audience, China-Africa Edition
This has been building for a long time. The latest is this CNN interview with Dambisa Moyo, she of “Dead Aid” fame, entitled, “China Can Transform Africa“. A couple of comments caught my eye:...
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InfoGraph of the Day: Chinese Companies and Risk in Africa
This is really impressive and makes me really rethink my previous notions of a political risk framework, particularly in the context of Africa. No more preface necessary: Sourced from Africa-Asia...
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How Oil Divides The Economies Of Africa Into Winners And Losers
I can’t get this article from the FT’s William Wallis out of my head. The headline is “Currencies pressed by trade imbalances” but this really only captures a small slice of the picture. Check it out:...
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Chart Of The Day: Food & Agriculture Demand And Supply
What this screams is the urgency of leveraging Africa’s arable land potential. I wonder how Africa would stack up against the righthand chart: From @CamboRobert. Related PostsCharts of the Day: The...
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A Brief Review Of The Biggest Obstacles Facing Mexico’s Moment
Huge kudos are in order for the FT’s Adam Thomson for finally coming around to spelling out the all-uphill battle Pemex faces. Kudos so huge, in fact, that I’m willing to forget all about this...
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A Diplomatic Way Of Saying A BRICS Development Bank Is A Stupid Idea
Dani Rodrik has this in Project Syndicate today: It can be cause only for celebration that the world’s largest developing economies are regularly talking to each other and establishing common...
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Map Of The Day: Global Shipping Routes
Thanks to CNI Group for this: I guess what strikes me the most about this map is the huge blank spaces among the world’s global shipping routes: the Bay of Bengal, southern Australia, the west coast of...
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Chart of the Day: World Population Growth vs History of Technology
This was just sent in from an unidentified reader. I do believe there is such a thing as being “too meta” but when shifts are so visibly pronounced, as they are here, it’s worth taking a moment to stop...
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