In Africa, smaller cities grow faster
611787
Botswana's capital offers an example of one city's efforts to manage explosive growth.
678761
Africa is starting to enjoy economic growth again after years of dismal statistics, but to cut poverty and be more competitive its countries must invest more in manufacturing and improve their export performance, a major United Nations report on the
647984
Sub-Saharan Africa is making significant progress in fighting malaria with the use of bed nets, a UN report shows.
650881
ONGATA RONGAI, Kenya  - A convoy of shiny, 4 x 4 vehicles roars into the pot-holed main street of a small town, kicking up dust and scattering people in their way.
116797
The economies of sub-Saharan Africa, home to some of the most extreme and pervasive poverty in the world, will grow at a healthy pace next year, International Monetary Fund economists said yesterday.
454474
The credit card boom will help African economies grow faster, economists say, and may curb corruption by reducing use of untraceable cash.
575319
While the market in Central and South America is growing faster than the U.S., Asia, and most of Europe, it still faces some challenges that need to be overcome.
82927
Africa is now one of the fastest-growing international outposts of the farthest-reaching cable channel in the world.
378405
African leaders have vowed to speed up  the economic and political integration of their continent to  pursue the goal of a United States of Africa, but they also  agreed to study more closely how to achieve it.
111150
Small-budget films may have just started to get momentum overseas but they are doing pretty well in the country.
463250
LONDON, Nov 16 (IPS) - Small is becoming beautiful again in the world of   finance. Or let us say, the microfinance business is beginning  to pick up.
360390
Contractors get a boost from a major west African project.
41994
AMBOSELI, Kenya  - With the world poised to enter an urban age when more people will live in cities than in the countryside, Josiah Tobiko sees no need to move from his cow dung-covered hut in rural Kenya.
473106
There is growth, but it's not homemade.
168533
The study shows that a small group of early humans returned to Africa after first migrating to the Middle East.
150084
THE International Monetary Fund forecast yesterday a substantial jump in economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa this year and next, saying the outlook for the region was better than in years.
95123
Washington - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on forecast Wednesday a substantial jump in economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa this year and next, saying the outlook for the region was better than in years.