Since 2013 the government of President Enrique Peña Nieto has been pushing for a major overhaul of the Mexican public education system. While opposition from powerful teachers’ unions has slowed ...

Kuwait’s upstream oil activities and crude oil exports are the central pillars of the country’s economy. In recent years the government has embarked upon an economic diversification drive to reduce ...

With global geopolitical instability elevating the threat of cyberattacks against businesses and government agencies, the six countries of the GCC are rapidly building more robust and comprehensive ...

A strong ICT ecosystem provides the foundation for an efficient modern economy, significantly enhancing business procedures, public services and job creation. With this in mind, Nigeria’s government ...

Ghana’s tourism sector is playing an increasingly important role in the country’s development, contributing to both economic growth and job creation. The results of the World Economic Forum’s “Travel ...

Agriculture remains a linchpin of Nigeria’s economy, contributing nearly 25% to GDP and employing 70% of the country’s workforce. To leverage its arable land and favourable climate, and reverse its ...

Access to power remains one of Nigeria’s chief economic and social issues, with about 90m citizens lacking access to electricity, while the World Bank estimates per capita usage is lower in just eight ...

COP26 has focused the world’s attention on the need for a more sustainable economic model that ensures profits and growth are not achieved at the expense of ecological health and social well-being.

Since assuming power in January 2017 the administration of President Nana Akufo-Addo has moved to rein in fiscal spending, industrialise rural regions and improve the business environment in order to ...

The construction sector in Egypt is experiencing the best of times and the worst of times. On the one hand, the government has placed the sector at the heart of its economic agenda, ensuring that ...

Qatar’s decision to expand liquefied natural gas (LNG) production by 43% from 77m tonnes per year to 110m tonnes per year by 2024 is designed to enable the country to capitalise on growing global ...

Regulators have faced challenges ensuring that all sector players are financially sound, as insurance markets across the Inter-African Conference of Insurance Markets (Conférence Inter-africaine des ...