Following a decade of rapid urbanization and strong economic growth, Africa is going digital. While just 16 percent of the continent’s one billion people are online, that picture is changing rapidly.

In this report, the McKinsey Global Institute looks beyond Africa’s immediate challenges and assess economic prospects to 2025 and beyond. The findings should be encouraging both for companies lookin

Africa's collective GDP, at $1.6 trillion in 2008, is now roughly equal to Brazil's or Russia's. While Africa's increased economic momentum is widely recognized, less known are its sources and likely

From time to time one reads a really refreshing and forward-looking report on the quest for sustainability. This one, focusing on the urban challenge, brings together concrete case studies from citie

It has been currently estimated that one half the world’s population now lives in urban areas. Further, virtually all of the world’s population growth between 2000 and 2030 is expected to be absorbed

The paper is presented in three parts. The first examines the context of gender and women’s studies in Nigeria. The second part explores the relations between intellectual content and political agend

With many companies making strategic business decisions over long time frames, the long-term projections of The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) provide information to facilitate such decisions. Lon

As described in Section 3 of The Future of the Global Financial System: A Near-Term Outlook and Long-Term Scenarios, the World Economic Forum’s scenario methodology begins with a series of interviews

A revisit, and an extension, of the paper “From Leadership to Organization: The Evolution of Global Politics,” originally presented at the University of Zurich in 1993. Three long-term processes: the

Several aspects of the perspectives for global agriculture are analysed in this report. FAO’s last global projection exercise to 2050 indicates that agricultural and food demand is expected to slow o