Economic Geography

The Indian economy is growing some 7 to 8 percent a year, rivaling or exceeding China in the coming years. Unemployment is at an all-time low. But how precise are these numbers? The New York Times explores the question how trustworthy these economic statistics are.

Yes, India’s Economy Is Growing, but Can You Trust the Data? Jobs data has been delayed, and economists are skeptical about how the Modi government has calculated growth. Small businesses may be hurting.

South Africa is a multilingual and multicultural space with 11 official languages, while English is mostly the dominant lingua. Universities are becoming increasingly aware that they have an important role to play in ensuring that students do more than just graduate. They introduce many vocation specific language courses to form a new cultural landscape.
Zakeera Docrat, Doctoral Student in African Language at Rhodes University wrote an interesting article about this new development at universities in South Africa.

How South Africa’s universities are making more students multilingual Vocation specific language courses have been introduced at a number of universities in South Africa.

While Africa's economies face more difficult external conditions in 2017, many of the policies that have contributed to weaker economic growth during the last years were home-grown. The good news is that average regional growth should recover in 2017. It seems that Economic Growth is still a vital Trend to Watch in Africa.

Africa: Economic Growth - Vital Trends to Watch In 2016, real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth in sub-Saharan Africa is estimated to have been the weakest since the 2008/9 global financial crisis. This was largely because of the weak performance in its two largest economies - South Africa and Nigeria - which together make up about half of sub-...

Six maps that show the anatomy of America’s vast infrastructure A look at the United States’s bridges, electrical grid, pipelines, railroads, airports and waterways