Sub-Saharan Africa

The ways of the world are quite often more straightforward than they at first glance appear to be. Whatever happens has a cause that...

This is the first of a series of occasional interviews with senior strategic investment fund (SIF) professionals. Tasked with attracting private investors to priority...

Credit the World Economic Forum with saving South Africa from communism. Invited to attend the 1992 World Economic Forum, Nelson Mandela arrived in Davos armed...

Overall, activity in the oil and gas industry across the African continent has slowed in the wake of the declining prices in late 2014....

Political disruptors have, once again, become fashionable – and popular. They always do when societies grow tired of business as usual and politicians that...

The question I am asked most often nowadays is this: Are we back to 2008 and another global financial crisis and recession? My answer is...

If one region has dominated the discussions at the World Economic Forum, it has been Africa. That continent’s diversity, contrasting fortunes, unique challenges, and...

An intrepid aviator and adventurer, Tracey Curtis-Taylor has made a name for herself recreating the ground-breaking solo flights of the first female aviatrixes at...

In western countries, the genetic modification of crops is often seen as a threat to the environment. Professor Calestous Juma takes a contrarian view:...

From helping China open up its economy (1976) to avoiding war between Greece and Turkey (1988) and bringing together West and East Germany (1989);...