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South Africa: GDP Increases By 1.9 Percent in Q1 of 2022
June 7, 2022--South Africa's gross domestic product (GDP) increased by 1.9% in the first quarter of 2022.
Addressing media on Tuesday, Statistician General Risenga Maluleke said in the first three months of the year, the manufacturing industry increased by 4.9%, contributing 0.6 of a percentage point to GDP growth.
"Seven of the 10 manufacturing divisions reported positive growth rates in the first quarter. The petroleum, chemical products, rubber and plastic products division made the largest contribution to the increase in the first quarter."
Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) said the food and beverages division; basic iron and steel, non-ferrous metal products, metal products and machinery division, and motor vehicles, parts and accessories and other transport equipment divisions also made significant contributions to growth.
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Source: allafrica.com
Africa: China Looks to Africa in Race for Lithium
June 4, 2022--It is the new gold rush, and China is leading the hunt as prices surge. Only it's not gold everyone's looking for, it's lithium. Many say the future of electric vehicle production and, more broadly, combatting climate change, depend on the rare metal.
Prices for the "green metal" have seen an almost 500% increase in the past year, according to Bloomberg.
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Source: allafrica.com
Africa: Bank Predicts Slower Economic Growth, Rising Inflation in Africa
May 27, 2022--According to the latest African Economic Outlook report by the African Development Bank, Russia's invasion of Ukraine and lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic pose huge challenges to the continent.
The bank's president, Akinwumi Adesina, said at the launch of the report that it will take a great deal of effort for Africa to fully recover.
"The recovery for Africa will be very costly. Africa will need at least 432 billion dollars to address the effects of COVID-19 on its economies and on the lives of its people-- resources it does not have."
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Source: allafrica.com
African Economic Outlook 2022: Africa's 2021 economic rebound impacted by lingering Covid-19 pandemic and Russia-Ukraine war
May 25, 2022--May 25, 2022--Africa's gross domestic product has recovered strongly in the last year, but the lingering effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the ensuing war could pose considerable challenges in the medium term. This is according to the 2022 African Economic Outlook, released by the African Development Bank on Wednesday.
Africa's gross domestic product grew by an estimated 6.9% in 2021. This is after the continent suffered a pandemic-induced contraction of 1.6% in 2020, says the Bank's flagship publication.
Rising oil prices and global demand have generally helped improve Africa's macroeconomic fundamentals, the report found. But growth could decelerate to 4.1% in 2022, and remain stuck there in 2023, because of the lingering pandemic and inflationary pressures caused by the Russia-Ukraine war. Both countries are major grain suppliers to Africa.
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Source: afdb.org
Nigeria's GDP Records 3.11 Percent Growth in First Quarter of 2022
May 23, 2022--Nigeria's Gross Domestic Production (GDP) has sustained a positive growth to record a 3.11 per cent in the first quarter of 2022.
But the figure is a slight drop from the 3.98 per cent recorded in Q4.
Speaking at a press conference on Monday, the Statistician-General of the Federation and CEO of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), Semiu Adeyemi Adediran, said the Nigerian economy has maintained a positive trend for the sixth consecutive quarter after the economic shock by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Source: allafrica.com
Ethiopia set to get its long-awaited stock exchange
May 20, 2022--Country's Ministry of Finance signed a cooperation agreement this week, having initially announced ESX in 2020
Ethiopia has moved a step close to getting its long-awaited Ethiopian Securities Exchange (ESX).
The ESX was first announced in 2020. The Ethiopian Ministry of Finance, the Ethiopian Investment Holdings, and FSD Africa have signed an agreement on Wednesday to establish the ESX, according to a report on financial website Finbold.
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Source: zawya.com
Africa's Pulse in Five Charts: Boosting Resilience Through Social Protection
April 20, 2022--Since emerging from its first recession in 25 years, economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa is estimated at 4% in 2021, up by 0.7 percentage point from the October 2021 projections, and up from -2.0% in 2020.
However, growth recovery in the region has slowed in the second half of 2021 due to the impact of the Delta COVID-19 variant, elevated debt levels in many countries, lingering supply bottlenecks, the plateauing of metal and mineral prices, rising inflation and tightening financial conditions.
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Source: worldbank.org
Nigeria: IMF Raises Nigeria's 2022 Economic Growth Forecast
April 19, 2022--The IMF projected the country's economy to grow by 3.1 per cent by 2023 from the 2.7 per cent it earlier projected.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has revised upward its growth forecast for the Nigerian economy in 2022 to 3.4 per cent from its earlier projection of 2.7 per cent announced in January.
The IMF announced the new projection in its World Economic Outlook update released on Tuesday.
It also projected the country's economy to grow by 3.1 per cent by 2023 from the 2.7 per cent it earlier projected.
It, however, reduced the global growth projection to 3.6 per cent for 2022 and 2023, given the Russia/Ukraine War.
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Source: allafrica.com
Nigeria: How Nigeria's Newly Launched Exchange-Traded Derivatives Market Can Profit Stock Investors
April 19, 2022--The NGX has lined up seven derivative contracts for the first phase, all of which have gained the consent of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Now that the liquidity in the Nigerian stock market is worrisomely low when set beside January's and daily size of trade is miles apart from its pre-pandemic level, capital market authorities have launched the first exchange-traded derivatives market in West Africa, marked by Thursday's introduction of two futures contract, NGX 30 Index and NGX Pension Index.
The combined value of the transactions executed on the bourse last year stood at N.9 trillion, according to NGX Domestic and Foreign Portfolio Investment Report issued January.
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Source: allafrica.com
UN report: 41 Countries in Africa face maximum exposure in 'three-dimensional crisis' as a result of war in Ukraine
April 15, 2022--Antonio Guterres unveils six champions including African Union chair Macky Sall to drive global action
A United Nations report has found that more than 70% of Africa's economies are at severe risk from Russia's war in Ukraine.
The African Development Bank is one of several international organizations, including UN specialized agencies and development lenders that are considering a plan to boost food production in Africa and avert a heavy toll on the African continent.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres announced the establishment of the 32-member UN Global Crisis Response Group-which he chairs-in March. Its members are the heads of the various organizations. Its first brief, released on Wednesday in New York, found that 41 African countries face maximum exposure to at least one emergency caused by the war.
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Source: afdb.org