AFRICA THINKS HERE
On-the-ground business intelligence in Zimbabwe, since July 2017.
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A lodge developer in northern Tanzania can build to any standard the market demands, but the asset is only as valuable as the road, airstrip and border post that connect it to demand. SADC's approval of a ten-year Tourism Programme raises an infrastructure...
A border post is infrastructure, whether or not it appears on an infrastructure ministry's project list. It has queuing capacity, throughput limits, and a physical footprint that determines how much freight can cross it in a day — the same variables that govern a...
A more favourable regulatory environment for cross-border investment is only half of what a firm needs before it commits capital to a warehouse in Ndola, a distribution hub near Beira, or a logistics park outside Gaborone. The other half is physical: functioning...
A financial inclusion strategy sounds like a paper exercise conducted in ministries and central banks. It is not. Reaching small and medium enterprises, youth and women entrepreneurs who currently sit outside the formal financial system requires somewhere for that...
SADC's corridor and infrastructure agenda runs on thousands of local contractors, materials suppliers, haulage operators and logistics agents who feed the ports, rail links, power projects and border posts that regional planners describe as an integrated system....
An industrialisation strategy that targets a 30% manufacturing employment share and 50% manufactured exports cannot be delivered from existing regional infrastructure alone. Factories, agro-processing plants and pharmaceutical manufacturing lines need serviced...
A protocol can declare a transport corridor open for investment on paper long before a single truck, train or fibre-optic cable crosses the border it was written to serve. That gap between policy declaration and physical network is the central question raised by...