Western Africa has experienced the highest growth in FDI inflows (20%) in Africa since 2000 which has translated into accelerated economic growth. However, increased FDI inflows are not always associated with improved economic growth as seen in the case of Northern and Central Africa.
Recent political unrest in Northern African states such as Libya, [...]

Africa, while often treated homogenously is a highly diverse continent.
A closer comparison of their GDP per capita and population size reveals a significant disparity between them.

On average 16% of all confirmations are being manually processed where they could be carried out electronically. Investment banks experience significant delays in trade confirmations due to manual processes and the complexity of certain trades. As a result they are exposed to potential fraud by the manipulation of trade data and they are unable to [...]

The impact of capital to assets ratio is much larger in emerging economies.
This will impact availability and cost of funding.
Credit growth is critical for emerging economies to realise growth prospects.
Basel III will force emerging countries to provide heavily subsidised financial instruments to compete with foreign banks.

Cell C has recently dropped prepaid call rates 34% to 99c per minute – a move quickly followed by Vodacom. As a volume-driven business, cellphone carriers globally have managed to increase revenues while reducing prices. South Africa, with over 100% mobile penetration, is one of the most saturated markets in the world. Will this price [...]

Base salaries should be kept low enough to allow room to create sufficient incentive and motivation, but high enough to give some breathing room. Generally a base salary will fall somewhere between 15 and 40 percent of total compensation.
Commissions can be based on sales or gross profit. Commissions should be based on gross [...]

South Africa has a disproportionately low private label market share relative to its high concentration of retailers, compared to the majority of other countries around the world. Based on this, South Africa should experience increasing purchase of private label goods.

Life insurance premiums in Africa fell by 8% since 2007 mainly due to the 16% decrease in life sales in South Africa. This was caused by the uncertainty relating to the global financial crisis which led to lower sales of single-premium and unit-linked products.
South Africa is the dominant market, accounting for around 81%of [...]