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AFRICAN CREDIT OUTLOOK: AN ECONOMIST’S PERSPECTIVE

GAIMIN NONYANE Head of Economic Research desk and Project Manager for Local Knowledge Africa (LKA; an advisory arm at Ecobank Research) at the pan-African bank, Ecobank Group, based in London. Gaimin joined the bank in November 2012, and helped to launch the bank’s first ever Country Profiles, designed to give investors an insight into the operating environment in Middle Africa. Prior to that, she headed the sub-Saharan Africa desk on macroeconomic and political research at…

Yvonne Mhango, Sub-Saharan Africa Economist

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Yvonne is Renaissance Capital’s Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) Economist. Prior to joining Renaissance in November 2010, Yvonne headed the SSA (ex. SA) economic research desk at Standard Bank of South Africa. She has worked as an SSA economist for 10 years, producing macroeconomic research and political analysis on several countries in the region, including Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Yvonne emerged as the winner of…

Robertson, Charles: Renaissance Capital’s Global Chief Economist

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Charles, a leading emerging markets specialist, is Renaissance Capital’s Global Chief Economist and head of the Firm’s macro-strategy unit. He covers global economic themes and their impact on emerging markets. Over the past decade, the scope of Charles’s work has covered, among other topics: quantifying political risk in emerging markets; how rising retirement ages reflect deep-rooted problems in the West and great opportunities in emerging markets; the revolutionary nature of growth in countries with non-democratic…