Debt Trap

Home About Us Research Advisory Services Data Publications Training DONATE Debt Trap Milton Ayoki Digital Economy September 29, 2025 Share This : Executive Summary (1-minute read) Africa’s public-debt stock has doubled since 2014 to > US1.1trn; external debt service now absorbs18 The continent pays710 21low−income African countries are already in debt distress or at high […]
AI for Africa: Can Policy Keep Up with the Algorithm?

Home About Us Research Advisory Services Data Publications Training DONATE AI for Africa: Can Policy Keep Up with the Algorithm? Milton Ayoki Digital Economy September 29, 2025 Share This : Across the continent, algorithms are already diagnosing crop diseases in Tanzanian cassava fields, flagging fraudulent mobile-money transfers in Lagos, and predicting cholera outbreaks in Lusaka. […]
Crypto in Africa: A Monetary lifeline or a regulatory nightmare?

Home About Us Research Advisory Services Data Publications Training DONATE Crypto in Africa: A Monetary lifeline or a regulatory nightmare? Milton Ayoki Digital Economy September 29, 2025 Share This : “We don’t need banks, we need bytes.”— Lagos tech-hub sticker, 2025 In 2025 Sub-Saharan Africa quietly became the planet’s third-most-active crypto region, moving US $205 […]
Who Owns Africa’s Data? The AI Revolution No One’s Regulating

Home About Us Research Advisory Services Data Publications Training DONATE Who Owns Africa’s Data? The AI Revolution No One’s Regulating Milton Ayoki Digital Economy September 29, 2025 Share This : Across Africa, artificial intelligence is quietly reshaping agriculture, finance, health, and security. In Zanzibar, farmers consult an AI app in Swahili to spot cassava disease […]
Digital Taxation in Africa: Who Pays When Tech Giants Profit?

Home About Us Research Advisory Services Data Publications Training DONATE Digital Taxation in Africa: Who Pays When Tech Giants Profit? Milton Ayoki Digital Economy September 29, 2025 Share This : Across Africa, a quiet fiscal revolution is underway. From Lagos to Nairobi, finance ministries are no longer asking if foreign tech firms should be taxed, […]
Responding to tax challenges of the digitalised economy

Home About Us Research Advisory Services Data Publications Training DONATE Responding to tax challenges of the digitalised economy Milton Ayoki Digital Economy April 4, 2025 Share This : Whereas digitization can support economic growth and growth of the small and medium sized enterprises by providing them with the opportunity to participate in the global marketplace […]
Will Trump’s America First Agenda Make Africa Trade Again? Assessing the debate on the future of AGOA

Home About Us Research Advisory Services Data Publications Training DONATE Will Trump’s America First Agenda Make Africa Trade Again? Assessing the debate on the future of AGOA Milton Ayoki Digital Economy April 4, 2025 Share This : From the opening moments of his presidency, Donald Trump set forth a radically altered vision for the United […]
Turning hills into mountains? Museveni’s formula for growing theUganda’s economy to the middle income status

Home About Us Research Advisory Services Data Publications Training DONATE Turning hills into mountains? Museveni’s formula for growing theUganda’s economy to the middle income status Milton Ayoki Digital Economy April 4, 2025 Share This : On June 23, 2016 the Ugandan President, Yoweri Kaguata Museveni while addressing the first inaugural cabinet at the State House […]
Uganda National Budget 2012/13: Priorities for renewed economic growth and development

Home About Us Research Advisory Services Data Publications Training DONATE Uganda National Budget 2012/13: Priorities for renewed economic growth and development Milton Ayoki Digital Economy June 1, 2012 Share This : How far does it go? Ugandan Finance Minister, Honourable Maria Kiwanuka’s 2012/13 budget is guided by five revolutionary events that are impacting the domestic […]