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Seeking quality entrepreneurial location? Tunisia ranks 1st in Africa

According to the recently released Global Entrepreneurship Index 2018, which measures the health of the entrepreneurship ecosystems in each of the 137 countries it studies – Tunisia is ranked 1st in Africa, in terms of the quality of the entrepreneurial environment

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6 years ago

June 19, 2018

Africa News Watch

This index is based on the analysis of 14 areas considered as key in the quality of the entrepreneurial environment.

The North African country owes its overall score (42.4 / 100) to the availability of private and public capital (venture capital) which is credited with a score of 70/100.

The ability to develop new products and to integrate new technologies is also a major asset for the land of Jasmine. The GEI 2018 reports that, the quality of human capital both in business and STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) in Tunisia exceeds the average of 50/100.

However, reveals the document, Tunisian entrepreneurs have a strong risk aversion. This lack of risk is mainly fueled by political instability. In the box of counter-performance factors that undermine the quality of the entrepreneurial initiative in Tunisia, competitiveness and the ability of the private sector to compete with the international market, hold a preponderant place.

In the Global ranking, Tunisia is 40th, followed by Botswana (52nd with 34.9 out of 100), the second in Africa’s ranking.

See the Top Ten (10) Africa Ranking, according to the quality of the entrepreneurial environment.

Tunisia (42.4 out of 100)
Botswana (34.9 out of 100)
South Africa (32.9 out of 100)
Namibia (31.1 out of 100)
Morocco (29.2 out of 100)
Egypt (25.9 out of 100)
Algeria (24.7 out of 100)
Rwanda (21.5 out of 100)
Ghana (21 out of 100)
Nigeria (19.7 out of 100)

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Nigeria wants $2.25 billion World Bank loan

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6 hours ago

April 23, 2024

Ifeoluwa Dada

Nigeria’s Finance Minister, Wale Edun, has revealed that the country is seeking up to $2.25 billion in World Bank loans and expects the bank’s board to approve the request in June.

The move was announced in a statement following the International Monetary Fund/World Bank spring meetings in Washington, D.C as the country also aims to issue diaspora bonds later this year to attract much-need foreign exchange into the country.

The World Bank loans would include $1.5 billion for development policy and $750 million for program-for-results, the statement said. It also said that the bank would meet in June to decide whether to approve the plan in its entirety.

The multilateral body is yet to comment on the revelation at press time.

Nigeria one of Africa’s biggest oil producers has struggled lately mainly over industrial-scale crude oil theft, and troubles getting foreign currency, which caused its naira currency to drop to all-time lows against the U.S. dollar. It has since recovered, though.

Already, the country is on record levels of debt, high unemployment, and large amounts of money from the central bank. However, Edun has insisted that the government had cut the money it borrowed from the central bank in half.

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Ghana’s finance minister anticipates debt restructuring MoU with lenders

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19 hours ago

April 22, 2024

Ifeoluwa Dada

Ghana’s Finance Minister has announced that the country’s two main creditors will send him a draft Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on a restructuring deal in May, signifying a major progress in the country’s debt reform.

Once the MoU is signed, it will make public the deal that was made in January to restructure $5.4 billion in loans with its official creditors, such as China and France.

The restructuring is a big step toward Ghana getting rid of its debt as it works to get out of the worst economic crisis in a generation. It should also allow the country to get more money from its $3 billion IMF program.

Mohammed Amin Adam said he was sure the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank would work together at the Spring Meetings in Washington, D.C. In June, the Monetary Fund’s executive board will agree to review its staff-level deal.

From 2023 to 2028, Ghana’s national debt to gross domestic product level was supposed to go down by 15%. This guess says that the number will have gone down every year for six years, ending at 69.96% in 2028.

Ghana didn’t pay back most of its foreign loans in December 2022 because it became too expensive to do so. But now it needs to work out a deal with private holders of about $13 billion in foreign bonds. It has also changed most of its domestic debt.