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Taxing the Informal Economy: Tech’s Promise and Pitfalls

Changes in the development finance world – especially the sharp drop in foreign aid and fewer cheap loans for low-income countries – have pushed taxation back into the spotlight. Africa has entered a new “tax era of development”. As external funding dries up, many African countries are now relying more on their own ability to […]

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Hidden Economy: Why Women Are Already Africa’s Most Powerful Industrialists

By Adam Molai, African industrialist and founder of TRT Investments Every Women’s Month, we talk about empowerment. We talk about inclusion. We talk about closing gaps. But perhaps the real question is: what if women had never been absent from the economy in the first place? What if we have simply been measuring economic power […]

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Haskè Ventures Invests In ProXalys, The Start-up That Digitises The Informal Economy

Haskè Ventures, the venture builder for Francophone Africa, has boosted the growth of Senegalese distribution chain innovator ProXalys by investing $150 000 in pre-seed funding in December 2021. ProXalys, founded in 2021 by finance expert Thierno Sakho, specialises in digital transformation in business-to-business commerce, with informal sector retailers as its primary target. The start-up aims […]

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