Archive for the “Geography” category
Global Food Security: The Biggest Challenge For Our World
by Richard Attias on March 14, 2012 • Leave your comment • Tagged as: famine, global food security, Somalia, UN, Unicef, US Department of Agriculture, Yemen
Last week in Rabat, Morocco, we launched the Global Food Security Forum, which was created as an initiative of OCP Group (the world’s leading provider of phosphates based in Morocco). We felt the particularly urgent need to do this now, because as climate change (…)
Startup Africa
by RIchard Attias and NYF Team on February 21, 2012 • Leave your comment • Tagged as: BRIC nations, Europe, Gabon, mineral resources, Nigeria, Twitter, US economy
As Europe and the US struggle to get their finances in order, and the BRIC nations do their best to build on recent successes, another continent has been quietly gaining pace. And lately not so quietly. Last year a stream (…)
Emerging economies prosper as the west muddles through
by RIchard Attias and NYF Team on November 30, 2011 • Leave your comment • Tagged as: Anthony Nightingale, Bill English, china, credit downgrades, Diane Brady, emerging economies, Kirill Dmitriev, New Zealand, Russian Direct Investment Fund, smart money
Right now, the smart money is sitting on the sidelines. This is what Diane Brady, senior editor and content chief of Bloomberg Businessweek, suggested at a panel discussion at APEC earlier this month. The other speakers didn’t entirely disagree, especially (…)
Seven — a lucky number?
by RIchard Attias and NYF Team on October 31, 2011 • Leave your comment • Tagged as: Global Food Security Forum, Marocco, OCP Group, population, seven billion, sustainability, The BCG Group
Today on October 31st the world’s population officially hits seven billion. Seven is a suggestive figure. In many cultures it is lucky – in France, for instance, a cat has seven lives. Shakespeare said there were “seven ages of man” (…)
Africa, ready for take-off
by NYF Team on September 30, 2011 • Leave your comment • Tagged as: Africa, banking, gold, investment, South Africa, telecommunications, United Nations, World Bank
Africa’s economic prospects have been smoldering for quite some time. Although the continent was hit by the global recession it has bounced back far faster than counterparts in the developed world. And a series of recent reports suggests this growth (…)
The death of geography
by Speakers and contributors on June 21, 2011 • Leave your comment • Tagged as: Deutsche Bank, Donna Milrod, economic region, geography, Jerry Webman, lance knobel, Mostafa Terrab, Oppenheimer
Does geography still matter? On this issue the panellists universally agreed: Yes. And no. An interconnected world has brought greater diversity; people still flock to cities for work; and in some fields, like the phosphate mining carried out by Mostafa (…)
