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28 Oct 2021  |  Africa  |  Frost Radar

Frost Radar™ for Economic Development: Africa, 2021

South Africa, Egypt, and Nigeria Emerge as the African Leaders

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The Frost Radar™ for Economic Development determines a region's future growth and development potential measured by its ability to enhance quality of life (QOL) for its citizens. This report explores Africa’s key strengths and weaknesses through country-level assessments of growth and innovation initiatives and then benchmarks each country on these...

Cloud computing is predicted to be the main IT trend in the upcoming years and will have a huge impact on world economy. A wide range of organizations—from small start-ups to global corporations, and from government agencies to non-profit organizations—have begun using cloud computing applications. Besides Microsoft, the main contributor behind t...

Economies of the Middle Eastern countries will remain modest due to higher oil exporting revenue being moderately offset by recession in Iran. Higher oil prices are expected to drive oil and gas and hydrocarbon sector in the region, with Saudi Arabia leading the pack in 2019. OPEC oil production dipped in November 2018 due to fall in Iranian produc...

The infrastructure deficit in India is continuing regardless of the relative catch-up in recent years. The Asian Development Bank, in its report titled “Meeting Asia’s Infrastructure Needs", has estimated that $4.40 trillion is needed to fix India’s infrastructure deficit by 2030. That entails more than $250–$300 billion of spending every year for ...

The MENA investment tracker provides a quarterly snapshot of the investment activity in Middle East and North African region. It analyses investment activity on a quarter-on-quarter basis in terms of the number and value of projects. The data is segmented by different industries, regions, stages of implementation, types of ownership, and types of p...

Economic recovery in Saudi Arabia will continue to be supported by pick up in oil production to compensative for output decline in Iran. While Aramco privatization is delayed, Saudi aims to generate $11 billion non-oil revenue through privatization program by 2020. The killing of journalist Khashoggi heightened capital flight in October 2018, as th...

Major economies in the Middle East and Africa experienced an economic slowdown with GDP growth rate declining for Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Nigeria, Qatar, Israel, and Iran in the second quarter of 2019. The area is affected by volatile oil prices, and in Q2 especially, there was a decline in oil prices and production cuts by OPEC. ...

South Asia is currently a hotbed of economic development. India has typically always been considered the main economic attraction of the region, but lately, Bangladesh has been establishing itself as a key attraction in the region. Bangladesh is now the fastest growing economy of the Asia Pacific. This research has been designed to provide insight ...

The macroeconomic outlook for the Middle East is expected to remain modest in 2020, with the expected strengthening of non-oil sectors and increased infrastructure spending in the region. The oil-dependent economies are prioritizing non-oil sectors for economic diversification. Unemployment across the region is expected to fall and remain stable du...