RWANDA: Macroeconomic Assessment & Prospects
Written by: Christina Surowiec Rwanda, like the rest of Africa and the world as a whole, is at a stage of tentative recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic – with tentativeness compounded by disruptions to food and energy markets emanating from the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war. Given this broadly foreboding situation and the fact that Rwanda is […]
Africa’s Present & Future Telecom/Electronics Revolution
Africa Connection | Christina Surowiec | June 10, 2022 In the U.S. and other First World locations, breathless encomiums to magical possibilities now realized thanks to the smartphone have a ring of hyperbole. In Africa, where landline systems were neither extensive nor reliable, life transformations wrought by mobile telephony are far harder to exaggerate. The […]
Electrification Synergies – West Africa
Electrification – typically measured by population percentage with in-household access to electricity – is a paradigmatic marker for development. Sub-Saharan Africa is the world’s least electrified region, but also a current and recent hotbed for activity in the power generation sector. And some of this activity is impressively innovative (see chart). According to World Bank […]
Electrification WAfr
Christina SurowiecElectrification Synergies – West Africa Electrification – typically measured by population percentage with in-household access to electricity – is a paradigmatic marker for development. Sub-Saharan Africa is the world’s least electrified region, but also a current and recent hotbed for activity in the power generation sector. And some of this activity is impressively innovative […]