Curse - International Business Weekly

‘The Worst Is Yet To Come’: The Curse Of High Inflation

By Brand Post | December 8, 2022 |

Signs with prices of different fruits and vegetables are seen in the Paloquemao market square, amid inflation reaching the highest figures in years, in Bogota, Colombia October 7, 2022. Reuters Globally, people are experiencing inflation at levels not seen for decades as prices surge for essentials like food, heating, transport and accommodation. And though a…

Will Africa’s Metals Boom Suffer The Same Curse As Oil?

By Brand Post | October 25, 2022 |

Mineral wealth: the Moanda region in Gabon may hold as much as a quarter of the world’s known deposits of manganese Mechanical diggers are hard at work in the bleak landscape of the Moanda open-cast mine in Gabon, using giant jaws to rip out manganese and then dump the ore into trucks with a crash.…