By Ahmed Olayinka Sule, CFA Remember the poor – it costs nothing Mark Twain Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential. Barack Obama [...]
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BRIC, Africa need to bridge barriers
By Ahmed Sule ,CFA Published in China Daily http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/opinion/2011-06/17/content_12723475.htm On May 11, 2000, The Economist magazine dubbed Africa “the Hopeless Continent” due to its lackluster economic performance, in a feature article titled “Hopeless Africa”. However, in the decade following the publication, Africa has experienced an economic revival with its combined GDP growing at an average [...]
Posted by The Vuvuzela on October 13, 2011
http://zangodare.wordpress.com/2011/10/13/bric-africa/
BRICS Can Build Common Currency
by Ahmed Sule, CFA published in the China Daily European Weekly On April 14, the third BRIC summit will be held in the southern Chinese city of Sanya and will for the first time feature South Africa, which will join Brazil, Russia, India and China to discuss matters of common interest to the bloc such [...]
Posted by The Vuvuzela on April 12, 2011
http://zangodare.wordpress.com/2011/04/12/bricscurrency/
Time to Set Up a Beijing Club for Sovereign Emerging Market Creditors
http://europe.chinadaily.com.cn/epaper/2011-03/11/content_12155005.htm It’s Time to Set Up a Beijing Club for Sovereign Emerging Market Creditors Ahmed Olayinka Sule, CFA In the eighties and nineties, there was a proliferation of emerging market debt crisis resulting partly from the accumulation of excessive and unsustainable debts by emerging and developing economies. Emerging countries including Poland, Mexico, Russia, Brazil, Argentina, [...]
Posted by The Vuvuzela on March 28, 2011
http://zangodare.wordpress.com/2011/03/28/beijingclub/
A Valentine Love Letter to the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
February 14, 2011 Mr. Dominique Strauss-Kahn Managing Director International Monetary Fund 700 19th Street N.W. Washington D.C. 20431 Dear Sir, Re: Report by the Independent Evaluation Office on IMF Performance in the Run-Up to the Financial and Economic Crisis I have read with interest the “IMF Performance in the Run-Up to the Financial and Economic [...]
Posted by The Vuvuzela on February 14, 2011
http://zangodare.wordpress.com/2011/02/14/imf/
Shareholder Activism in a Post-Lehman World
Shareholder Activism in a Post-Lehman World By Ahmed Sule, CFA March 2010 As the global economy gradually recovers from the impact of the worst global financial crisis since the 1930s, companies continue to lay off thousands of employees and financial institutions are expected to write down trillions of dollars of toxic assets. In addition, governments [...]
Posted by The Vuvuzela on April 5, 2010
http://zangodare.wordpress.com/2010/04/05/activism/
