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Africa's future will hinge on closing skills gap

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AFRICA

Skills development in Africa.

Soft policy leaves Swedish krona open to attack

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SWEDEN

Macroeconomic outlook for Sweden.

AI use will become central to corporate recruitment

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INT

Using AIs can expand the candidate pool and increase diversity, automate the screening of applicants, making hiring quicker and thus cheaper, and provide companies with more…

Tight US job market will keep monetary policy tight

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UNITED STATES

Despite fears of a recession, the US economy continues to add jobs and employers report difficulties attracting and retaining workers. Wage growth is decelerating fitfully…

Egypt youth programmes aim to build loyalty

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EGYPT

The forum, which brings together 5,000 people from all over the world to discuss issues related to entrepreneurship and development, is one of the flagship initiatives organised…

Trade will not drive Latin America recovery this year

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LATIN AMERICA

These include a reorganisation of global value chains, an increase in intraregional trade in the other regions and a resurgence of economic nationalism. The report urges increased…

South Africa will struggle to tame xenophobic violence

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SOUTH AFRICA

Some twelve people have now been killed in related unrest over the past week, principally in Gauteng province, with over 400 individuals arrested. Foreign-born Africans and their…

Economic goals of Dubai and Abu Dhabi will diverge

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UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

Despite its promotion of an innovation ecosystem to attract start-ups, Abu Dhabi has overall made little progress in addressing the impact of the clean-energy transition on…

Foreign firms' influx will accelerate Saudi change

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SAUDI ARABIA

Without this, companies will not be awarded any government contract worth more than SAR1mn (around USD220,000). To date, the government has issued 162 regional headquarters…

South African monopoly plan faces competing interests

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SOUTH AFRICA

The proposed overhaul, prompted in part by populist sentiment against so-called ‘white monopoly capital’, aims to facilitate competition and open the economy to smaller…