Author: Liz Booth
Liz Booth has more than 30 years’ experience as a journalist and editor, working on a mix of consumer and business titles but, for the past decade, has concentrated on the insurance and risk sector. Having grown up in west Africa and then lived in South Africa, she has a lifelong commitment to the continent and a passionate interest in its future success.
Building resilience after a major catastrophe
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has produced this blog, looking at the ways in which countries are better preparing for the next major catastrop [...]
Fair competition hard to achieve in emerging economies
A new report from US-based Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) suggests digital financial services are often limited to one or two providers [...]
VIDEO: Tim Yeates discusses confirmation bias
Tim Yeates, communications expert and thought leader, warns of the risk of ignoring confirmation bias when adopting policies and setting AI pa [...]
World Bank launches ESG investment portal
The World Bank has launched the Sovereign ESG Data Portal to provide users with sovereign-level environmental, social and governance (ESG) data to bet [...]
Blue economy of enormous value to African states
“The blue economy can be a site of economic production, which through its value chain process can link small, medium and big production firms and ther [...]
Smartphones to revolutionise credit scoring in Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa accounts for 45.6% of mobile money activity which is estimated at more than $1.3 billion per day globally.
One expert suggests t [...]
ARC pays out almost US$750,000 to Ivory Coast after drought
African Risk Capacity Insurance (ARC) has handed a cheque for almost FCFA443,000,000 (equivalent of US$738,539) to the Ivory Coast government to provi [...]
Video: A definition of sustainable insurers
Elias Omondi, an actuary at Kenya’s Insurance Regulatory Authority, provides the regulator’s definition of sustainable insurance [...]
Insurance key as African Risk Capacity and UN sign deal to boost financial tools
Insurance will lie at the heart of a new deal between the African Risk Capacity (ARC) and the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNC [...]
Africa set to build resilience through takaful insurance
Takaful insurance is set to play an even bigger role in building African insurance markets and increasing resilience, while reducing the protection ga [...]