The people cited above said Pakistan and Afghanistan will now be grouped under the bank’s Middle East and North Africa (Mena) ...

What’s really happening across Africa right now? From unexpected political twists and bold peacekeeping moves to ...

South Africa ranks last: South Africa is one of the most challenging countries for doing business. According to an IMF study, ...

In 2021 the IMF projects the worst economic growth on record for sub-Saharan Africa – threatening to derail years of progress – across a basket of metrics for measuring human and economic development.

It is South Africa’s political-economic structure, its ‘relations of power’, that need transformation, if the objective is to reverse our shameful poverty, unemployment and inequality. This ...

As China remains South Africa’s largest trading partner, and South Africa holds its position as China’s biggest partner in Africa, the two countries are deepening economic cooperation across trade, ...

This year’s spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank have made it clear that the global financial ...

Countries of the Global South are caught up in a vicious cycle – they are forced to take expensive conditional loans from the ...

East Africa is rapidly emerging as a testing ground for the future of digital finance, where the promise of cryptocurrencies ...

The CEO of Capitec says that Stats SA is wrong, and actually the unemployment rate isn't 8 million. It's much less.

In South Africa, our central bank mandate, laid out in the constitution, is to protect the value of the currency in the interests of balanced and sustainable growth. Much as I admire open discussion, ...

Meaningful adjustments to international economic governance are more likely to arise from pragmatic coalitions that transcend traditional North-South divides. Accordingly, new forms of cooperation are ...