Recently, Jorgen Eriksson from Bearing was interviewed by the Middle East Eye about the place brand of Casablanca. The article is available on this link.
Category: Africa
The Bearing Wave in Kenya
This blog, The Bearing Wave has been around since 2009 and has reached a sizeable regular readership. Every day, several hundred people navigate to The Bearing Wave to read from the about 900 articles on the site. About half the readers come through Google and other search engines. About half from links on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook,… Continue reading The Bearing Wave in Kenya
An Uber Innovation Experience in Egypt
Taxi in Egypt This week I have been working in Egypt. Taxi drivers here are notoriously know for ripping off customers, which I thoroughly experienced during my first days of my stay, when I took three taxi rides in Cairo. On the first ride, the taxi driver said he knew the destination. Then he set… Continue reading An Uber Innovation Experience in Egypt
Economic Assessment of Al Alamein New City in Egypt
Earlier today, on the grounds of employing the principles, strategies, tools developed in UN-Habitat’s Strategic Plan 2014 -2019, the Achieving Sustainable Urban Development project (ASUD) – one of UN-HABITAT Egypt’s projects- run a joint meeting between UN-Habitat staff supported by UN-Habitat Urban Economy and Finance Branch, the Egyptian national counterpart General Organization for Physical Planning… Continue reading Economic Assessment of Al Alamein New City in Egypt
Kenyas Mega Projects
Today CNN highlight Kenya´s mega projects in a visual presentation which is worth a look. Kenya is already an infrastructure powerhouse of East Africa, but it is just the start of development. The next few years may see a quantum leap forward with tens of billions of dollars to be spent on some of the… Continue reading Kenyas Mega Projects
Chinese Investments in Africa
China continues to generate controversy with its rapidly growing investments in Africa, and the country has emerged as Africa’s largest trading partner for primarily energy and minerals. At the same time, there is a growing volume of Chinese direct investment in Africa. The ever-impressive Brookings institute published an interesting blog article on the topic earlier… Continue reading Chinese Investments in Africa
Development of Al-Alamein in Egypt
“Now this is not the end; it is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.” – Winston Churchill, November 1942 Al-Alamein is a town in northern Egypt, located on the Mediterranean Sea 106 kilometres west of Alexandria and 240 kilometres northwest of Cairo. For most of… Continue reading Development of Al-Alamein in Egypt
Emerging and Frontier Markets Investment Perspectives
Today I attended a full-day workshop in Monaco, about the current state of emerging and frontier markets. The workshop was led by Dr. Marcus Goncalves from Nichols College, and it was not about investment ideas or recommendations. Instead, it was about analysing the fundamental global macroeconomic forces and trends which enables us to better understand… Continue reading Emerging and Frontier Markets Investment Perspectives
The True Size of Africa
The Mercator projection is most often used to produce flat maps of the World, where the globe we live on in fact is not flat at all. The drawback with the Mercator projection is that it distorts the shape and areas of large land masses, and the distortion gets progressively worse closer to the poles.… Continue reading The True Size of Africa
Robert Neuwirth on the Informal Economy in Africa
Wednesday this week, I watched a speech by Robert Neuwirth at the Future of Places conference, which I found both very good and entertaining. As it is Friday, I think it is an appropriate day to publish my video of the speech here on the Bearing Wave. Mr Neuwirth describes the informal economy in Africa… Continue reading Robert Neuwirth on the Informal Economy in Africa