Online TV is unstoppable, but telcos hold key to affordability
It is a sign of the times how over-the-top (OTT) services, as exemplified by the likes of Netflix, are literally stealing the show as internet uptake spreads across Africa. DStv’s widely quoted appeal recently to the South African regulators regarding why it may “not survive any...Saturday, May 26, 2018 - 5:43am
A new resolution that is bound to spin heads
A new UN resolution that seems to have escaped the attention of most mainstream media is bound to open Pandora’s Box in many theatres, especially in conflict zones. On May 24, the UN Security Council approved a ban on the use of starvation as a weapon of war. This ruling will particularly...Saturday, May 26, 2018 - 5:25am
Should economists make moral judgments?
BUDAPEST – I recently attended a PhD seminar in labour economics at the Central European University in Budapest. In it, we considered whether the Hungarian government’s scheme to focus on long-term unemployment is working efficiently, and we raised a host of technical problems for the...Saturday, May 26, 2018 - 5:04am
The value of measuring financial inclusion
NEW YORK – In modern economics, the interaction between supply and demand with regard to goods and services is well understood, thanks to the pioneering work of the late Kenneth Arrow and Gérard Debreu. But the links between the domain of goods and services and that of money and finance are...Saturday, May 26, 2018 - 5:04am
The German rules trap
PARIS – Europe has a new German problem. Unlike in the past, it stems neither from hegemonic ambitions nor from the sort of weakness that might tempt aggression. Instead, it is rooted in Germany’s abdication of any sense of shared responsibility for Europe, despite boasting as robust an...Friday, May 25, 2018 - 5:01am
Conditional castaway apparel and footwear? What temerity!
I’ve said here before that if the USA were to offer Rwanda its nanoscience, nanotechnology, nanobots and ‘nano-whatever-else’ for a disease-free life when it fully masters knowledge of them, Rwanda would maybe ponder swallowing her pride and accept its (US) castaway cloth and...Friday, May 25, 2018 - 5:01am
Editorial: The OAU ended apartheid; can AU do the same with corruption?
Today is Africa Day in honour of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) success in fighting colonialism and Apartheid. It is also its 55th anniversary. The OAU could be blamed for not attaining its main objective – Unity - but the predecessor of the African Union (AU) at least had some...Friday, May 25, 2018 - 4:55am
Why reinvent the monetary wheel?
LONDON – Slumps have always been boom times for monetary experiments, and the economic collapse of 2008-2009 was no different. Underlying this recurrence is the instinctive feeling that economic calamities must have monetary causes, and therefore monetary remedies. There is either too much...Friday, May 25, 2018 - 4:55am
Turkey and Africa are Building a Solid Partnership
As Turkey marks the annual Africa Day, I take the opportunity to celebrate Africa’s achievements and rejoice in our developing partnership. Africa’s ascendancy makes all Turks proud and motivates us to engage in closer ties and cooperation. Political institutions around Africa are...Thursday, May 24, 2018 - 10:10am
The Arsenal deal is the sure deal
Rwanda Development Board (RDB) has carried out a major coup that is the talk of the internet. It has landed a sponsorship deal with one of the world’s largest and most famous football clubs; Arsenal. The mere mention of the deal was a mediatic triumph as it was widely reported on mainstream...Thursday, May 24, 2018 - 4:58am
The world according to Trump and Xi
NEW DELHI – The world’s leading democracy, the United States, is looking increasingly like the world’s biggest and oldest surviving autocracy, China. By pursuing aggressively unilateral policies that flout broad global consensus, President Donald Trump effectively justifies his...Thursday, May 24, 2018 - 4:13am
The expatriate privilege
At what stage does one wake up and everything the government and people of a nation does is bad, stupid and nonsensical? At what point do we catch ourselves, reflect and realise that there is often more than meets the eye when it comes to running a country; especially one that has had wars? What...Thursday, May 24, 2018 - 3:04am
The African century
We’ve all heard stories of ‘Africa rising’ at times, and ‘afro-pessimism’ at other times, without grasping exactly what all that means. To be clear, corruption and bad leadership won’t feature in my story because they are permanent features in all five continents...Wednesday, May 23, 2018 - 6:17am
Editorial: Kagitumba has gone 24hrs, what are others waiting for?
Despite the recent toll on East Africa’s trade infrastructure where heavy rains swept away bridges, cut off roads and caused severe flooding, the ease of doing trade has been growing day-by-day. One of the objectives of the two protocols of the East African Community – the Common...Wednesday, May 23, 2018 - 1:36am
Learning from America’s forgotten default
LOS ANGELES – One of the most pervasive myths about the United States is that the federal government has never defaulted on its debts. Every time the debt ceiling is debated in Congress, politicians and journalists dust off a common trope: the US doesn’t stiff its creditors. There...Tuesday, May 22, 2018 - 5:55am
Until we respect the profession, expect bad customer service
There is a notion that working in customer service is ‘too low’ for some. And it is unfortunate that we add weight to that misguidance. We don’t assign any respect to jobs within customer service, and therefore indirectly strip the sector and those that work within it, from the...Tuesday, May 22, 2018 - 5:37am
Africa should strive to get it right this time
When the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) was set up on May 25, 1963 there was a load of hope among many African leaders. Many countries were still having teething problems experimenting with independence. Africa at that time had some heavyweights such as Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya, Kwame Nkrumah...Tuesday, May 22, 2018 - 5:37am
The old allure of new money
NEW HAVEN – The crypto currency revolution, which started with bitcoin in 2009, claims to be inventing new kinds of money. There are now nearly 2,000 crypto currencies, and millions of people worldwide are excited by them. What accounts for this enthusiasm, which so far remains unhampered by...Tuesday, May 22, 2018 - 5:04am
Editorial: Local leaders can replicate Gatsibo village success
In May last year, a small village in Gatsibo District made headlines after it emerged that it had not recorded a single crime since the beginning of 2017. Kagarama village in Gitoki Sector, Gatsibo was declared a ‘crime free’ village thanks to a homegrown initiative known as ‘...Monday, May 21, 2018 - 3:12am
Where the water is
HAMILTON, CANADA – In many parts of the world, there are simply no more conventional freshwater resources available to meet growing demand. Beyond limiting economic development, the lack of sufficient freshwater resources threatens the wellbeing of billions of people by causing conflict,...Monday, May 21, 2018 - 2:18am
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