Indeed, Africa – with countries like Nigeria and Kenya leading – saw the most explosive growth in peer-to-peer payment platforms in terms of transaction volume across all the regions of the world. …Read the full story
Bitcoin has received and continues to receive a lot of fervent support. Bitcoin fails as a currency, as an investment, as a store of value and as a hedge against inflation – all of which have been touted as unique selling points of this nascent piece of technology. This mercurial nature of the digital coin […]
With funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation, AGRA was started with the objective of raising yields and incomes for 30 million smallholder farm households while halving food insecurity by 2020. What went wrong? The continuing protests by Indian farmers — despite the COVID-19 resurgence — highlight the problematic legacy […]