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Estonia's Bolt set to invest €500mn towards Africa services expansion
Estonian ride-hailing app predicts that some 300,000 new drivers and couriers could join the platform in 2023.
Russia and China’s popularity rising in the Global South as world fractures into liberal and illiberal spheres
Of the 6.3bn people who reside outside of liberal democracies, 70% have a positive view of China and 66% of Russia.
IMF: Charting globalization’s turn to 'slowbalization' after world financial crisis
The free flow of ideas, people, goods, services, and capital across national borders leads to greater economic integration. But globalization, the trend toward these things moving ever more freely between nations, has slowed in recent years.
NEMETHY: Key economic and financial drivers to watch in 2023
There is an old joke that the role of economic forecasters is to make astrologers look good. Forecasting GDP or inflation for the upcoming year with any degree of accuracy is virtually impossible, but there are some scary signs appearing.
The woman who discovered Jack Dorsey's new bitcoin bet in Africa first
In December the investment community took notice of Jack Dorsey’s most recent moves in Africa when his tech conglomerate Block, Inc. co-led a $2mn investment round into Gridless, a bitcoin mining company in Africa.
