Investing: Why Africa? Why now?

Africa has always seemed to be lagging behind the rest of the world since the colonial era and not many paid attention to African economies until recently when there was a demographic shift and the continent boasted the youngest continental population. Africa is the continent that will skip the brick and mortar development and advanced…

China vs the West- The Pakistani Bailout

(Xi Jinping holding Imran Khan, the Pakistani Prime Minister)   Pakistan is not a country known for it financial stability. Since 1988, the nation has been the subject of 12 IMF bailouts totalling $19 billion and is currently in the process of trying to secure another IMF emergency package of up to $12 billion. Increased…

Khan Academy

Providing all of the world’s children with a quality primary, secondary and higher education is no small task. With limited teaching resources, educating the youth is particularly big problem in the developing world. Progress has been made, and as the fourth UN sustainability goal, education does receive a lot of attention, however there is still…

Huawei – First Victim of the Trade War?

The latter stages of 2018 and start of 2019 has proved challenging for Huawei, the Chinese telecommunications giant and one of Beijing’s “national champion” tech firms. On December 1, Canadian authorities in Vancouver arrested the company’s chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou, at the behest of the United States. On January 11, news broke that Polish…

Cannabis – the new Cuban Cigars

  The Legal Cannabis market is expected to grow to grow 230% to $32 billion in 2022 as compared to $9.5 in 2017, according to ArcView Market Research and BDS Analytics. Whilst majority of that growth is being spurred by developed markets, such as the United States and Canada. This global growth presents an interesting…