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5 Apr 2024
CEO reputation as a key factor in corporate success and stakeholder perception: Elon Musk and Tesla case study
Companies worldwide revere their reputation. From a marketing perspective, the effective management of reputation opens up a business entity to prospects of unparalleled success, and on the flip side,...
28 Mar 2024
Accelerating Africa’s Digital revolution: Prioritising transformation in telecommunications and banking.
Africa is on the brink of a digital revolution. With the growing recognition of the pivotal role digital technologies play in economic development, African nations are increasingly prioritising digita...
28 Mar 2024
Navigating trade harmonisation in African regional economic integration: Focus on AfCFTA.
When contemplating the Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) and its implementation, numerous complexities arise, particularly considering that most African nations are members of one or more Re...
28 Mar 2024
Kenya leads mobile money innovation: Trends and key insights from State of the Industry Report 2024
The State of the Industry Report on Mobile Money 2024 has revealed interesting insights into the mobile money landscape across sub-Saharan Africa. Among the countries analysed, Kenya emerges as a foca...
28 Mar 2024
Regulation in business: Corporates should watch judicial decisions for compliance yardsticks.
As the world continues to transform rapidly, business regulation continues to grow unabated. Regulations come in the form of laws made by Parliament or common law (laws emanating from judicial decisio...
28 Mar 2024
EACC report reveals police, immigration and registration of persons as corruption hotspots.
Greed and desire for quick services have been identified as the major cause of corruption in public service. The National Ethics and Corruption Survey (NECS) Report, 2023, which was carried out in D...
22 Mar 2024
TRADE AND FINANCIAL SERVICES ROUND-UP.
Kenya Kenya’s coffee exports nearly doubled in January on demand Kenyan coffee exports nearly doubled to 2,685 tonnes in January on demand for the larger quantities of quality crops from the main Oc...
22 Mar 2024
WHO urges investments for the scale-up of tuberculosis screening and preventive treatment
Ahead of World Tuberculosis (TB) Day, which is marked on 24 March, WHO has released an investment case for TB screening and preventive treatment. A modelling study developed with the governments of fo...
21 Mar 2024
EAC’s plan to boost intra-regional trade by eliminating non-trade barriers.
In the complex world of international trade, barriers come in various forms, extending beyond the traditional realm of tariffs. Non-tariff barriers (NTBs) represent a diverse array of obstacles employ...
21 Mar 2024
Enhancing tax compliance to boost revenue: Expanding the tax bracket and prudent spending must go hand in hand.
Meeting Kenya’s ever-growing development needs, largely financed through taxation, is an arduous task. The broader fiscal context Kenya finds itself in currently makes even the challenge dauntin...
21 Mar 2024
Global disputes in taxi-hailing services reveal regulatory challenges: Insights from Australia.
Earlier this week, more than 8,000 taxi and hire car drivers in Australia emerged victorious in a class-action lawsuit against Uber. They sought compensation for the financial setbacks they endured fo...
21 Mar 2024
The TikTok ban debate: National security, free speech and global tech competition
Recurrent attempts by the US government to ban TikTok, the popular social media app, have sparked debates not just about national security concerns but also about the broader implications for tech com...
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