SMEs are the backbone of African economies, providing over 60% of employment, generating some 40% of the GDP. SMEs are merchants, traders, producers, innovators, plumbers, smallholder farmers,…

Introduction Many studies emphasize country-level factors in the dynamics of venture capital (VC) investments across the African continent, while the role of networks in shaping economic…

Financial technology (Fintech) innovations are becoming the mainstay of the global financial sector and user responses to these innovations have been remarkably positive and embraced at an…

Burkina Faso, like most developing countries, is characterized by a large informal sector, populated mainly by small, unregistered firms with low productivity and not paying taxes. According to the…

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) account for around half of formal employment in North Africa. These figures would even be significantly higher if SMEs operating in the informal sector were…

The COVID-19 pandemic showed the critical importance of digitization when travel and physical interactions were severely restricted. As digital platforms such as Zoom and Microsoft Teams became the…

  Many Africans countries are important players in the global fossil fuel market and their economies are heavily dependent on revenue from the extraction and export of fossil fuels. However, the…