Analysis & Opinions

Bill Gates The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation yesterday launched its fourth annual  Goalkeepers Report, featuring new data showing how the ripple effects of COVID-19 have stopped 20 years of progress toward the  United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (Global Goals). The report provides the most contemporary global data set for

URA Commissioner General, John Rujoki Musinguzi The COVID-19 pandemic has adversely affected economies worldwide. The lockdowns to contain the spread of the deadly disease has seen companies lose revenue and millions of workers lose jobs. Consequently, many revenue authorities around the world have failed to hit their monthly revenue collection

Paul Obiero, Emma Mugisha, Head CIB, Simon Kaheru Public Affairs and Communications Director, Coca Cola Beverages Africa, Anne Juuko Stanbic CE, Barbara Mulwana ED Nice House of plastics, Dr Najib Batenya and Catherine Poran Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has gained prominence as part of every company business strategy. Companies now

By Denis Jjuuko There is an exciting video of a politician campaigning while appearing to be digging a grave during the just concluded NRM party primaries. I think trying too hard to commiserate with the bereaved; the politician found grave digging the most appropriate thing to do. In years before

By Kristalina Georgieva, Gita Gopinath The managing director and the chief economist of the International Monetary Fund lay out a strategy for sustained recovery. For more than six months, the world has grappled with the severe health and economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. Global economic activity collapsed in the

By Pedro Guerreiro, Managing Director for Central Africa at SAP The 21st century is widely touted as the 'African Century', a period promising unprecedented economic and technological growth for the continent. Africa's future looks bright.The continent features five of the ten fastest-growing economies in the world. Its population is the

With three of the eight candidates to become the next leader of the World Trade Organization (WTO) coming from Africa, BBC Africa business editor Zawadi Mudibo looks at what difference having one of them at the helm would make for the continent. There is a growing feeling among African diplomats

Kenneth Kitungulu, the Head Global Markets at Stanbic Bank Uganda Uganda’s private sector continues to recover from the impact of the coronavirus pandemic (Covid-19) as business conditions improved in August after a near standstill of activities during the series of lockdowns between March and the end of May. The latest