Original Broadcast: Conversations From Africa
This is Conversations From Africa featuring the Managing Editor of Forbes Africa Magazine, Chris Bishop, in conversation with Share Radio's Patrick Jones. First up for discussion this week is news concerning civil unrest in Zimbabwe, will the violence make a dent in the political structures of a country which has already seen it's fair share of crises? In other economic news, the South African economy has lost 15,000 jobs according to the countries leading statistics provider. Plus, the South African Trade Minister Rob Davies doesn't think Brexit will harm the trading relationship between the UK and South Africa... but is he right?
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Original Broadcast: Emerging Opportunities With Gavin Serkin
This is a special edition of Emerging Opportunities, with world renowned fund manager, Mark Mobius from Franklin Templeton Investments. Dr. Mobius has been called the godfather of emerging markets by the Financial Times and he joined Gavin Serkin & Juliette Foster to give his thoughts on how the Brexit vote will affect emerging markets.
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Original Broadcast: Conversations From Africa
This is Conversations From Africa with Chris Bishop, Managing Editor of Forbes Africa Magazine & Share Radio's Patrick Jones. In this edition of the show: - Chris tell us of his recent interview with South African finance minister Pravin Gordhan. - Updates on the Oscar Pistorious court case. - The latest news from South Africa's 'platinum belt' where there is considerable unrest between mining companies & the unions. - SABC news in South Africa choose to ban footage of protests being shown on their network.
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Original Broadcast: The Weeks Update
The Greek financial crisis may have gone quiet for the time being but an economic drama on an equally large scale is being played out in Ghana and Mozambique. Both countries are languishing under the weight of multi - billion Dollar debt mountains, currency depreciations and the drying up of foreign investment. As major creditors struggle to find a way of making both economies sustainable, its ordinary people who are left to cope with the fallout of rising food and living costs...a consequence of high borrowing and economic mismanagement. Tim Jones of the Jubilee Debt Campaign joins Juliette Foster in the studio along with Professor John Weeks, Share Radio's regular economics commentator.
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Original Broadcast: Emerging Opportunities With Gavin Serkin
Welcome to a brand new edition of Emerging Opportunities - the only show on your radio dedicated to the world of emerging markets, with Juliette Foster and Gavin Serkin, the author of Frontier: Exploring the Top Ten Emerging Markets of Tomorrow, and the Managing Editor of Frontier Funds and Frontera News. Today is a special show focusing on a country that was making headlines a couple of weeks ago when President Obama visited - and removed the last vestiges of an arms embargo that has been in place since the Vietnam War. To find out the situation on the ground, Gavin spoke with Khanh Vu, Director at one of Vietnam's largest money managers, VinaCapital. He also spoke with Marcus Svedberg, the Chief Economist at East Capital, which manages over $2 billion in emerging markets, to get his take on the likely winners and losers as we enter what could be an extremely volatile few months.
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Original Broadcast: Conversations From Africa
On this week's show, Chris Bishop Managing Editor of Forbes Africa discussed South Africa avoiding a credit downgrade to junk status. Chris will also look at South Africa's political landscape and Telcom while he also looks at Muhammad Ali's legacy in Africa.
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In this episode of The World This Week, Rita teams up with Mashable to investigate what's behind this week's spurt of ShareHold-er ECO Activism with science editor, Andrew Freedman. Fiona Norman speaks to Greek financial crisis expert, Thanos Dimadis, to find out how unlocking a €10.3bn bail out loan will help in easing the countries financial debt pile. We look at why tech companies are in the top five list in the world with the most cash in the bank, and how the value of sterling has been extremely volatile this year and what link this may have with Brexit fears.
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Original Broadcast: Emerging Opportunities With Gavin Serkin
This is Emerging Opportunities - the only show on radio dedicated to the world of emerging markets. Joining Juliette Foster in studio is Gavin Serkin, author of Frontier: Exploring the Top Ten Emerging Markets of Tomorrow, and the Managing Editor of Frontier Funds and Frontera News. Also joining Juliette is James Bennett of Aston Currency Management & Joe Delvaux from Duet Asset Management. Topics today range from currency strength in emerging markets, trouble for Mozambique's economy & a debt scandal, plus discussion on Africa's broader economy & much more!
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Original Broadcast: Conversations From Africa
This is Conversations From Africa, Share Radio's weekly look at major news from across the African continent with Chris Bishop, Managing Editor of Forbes Africa Magazine & Share Radio reporter Patrick Jones. On today's show: A new policy for Uber in South Africa which was met with uproar from regular cab drivers, violence erupting in South Africa's Parliament due to the Economic Freedom Fighters, news of changes to interest rates in South Africa, news of a possible arrest for the Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan, a look at the Zimbabwe Flag movement & much more!
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Original Broadcast: Juliette's Macro-Economic View
Providing access to finance and loans is a key tool for helping the world's poorest people and a critical part of helping developing nations build more robust economies. FINCA, the international Microfinance Institution, works to provide micro loans for entrepreneurs and small to medium sized enterprises around the globe. To learn more Share Radio's Alexi Phillips sat down with its president and co-CEO Rupert Schofield. Alexi began by asking him about FINCA's mission and approach.
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