Somalia: Recovering from the Shocks
For the last several years, Somalia has enjoyed a stable economic growth rate with strong positive indications of a progressing business environment. Even though Somalia ranks 190 on the World Bank’s annual flagship report of Ease doing business, the country is among the top ten countries for startups in Africa. “Mogadishu is the most innovative […]
5 things Somali government should do to promote Entrepreneurship
Introduction Despite the current health crisis caused by the pandemic, we are undeniably witnessing the soaring of small business in our country. Historically, global entrepreneurship has been surging gradually in various parts of the world since the end of the cold war in 19991. In the past two decades, Somalia experienced one of its highest […]
Social Media Platforms: waste of time or source of income?
Over the past decade, Somalia experienced an internet revolution, perhaps the biggest in the African continent. In 2020, a year of global crisis where internet connection has become a lifeline for much of the world, Somalia made a surprise jump in the global rankings of mobile internet services. The previous year it was ranked 34th […]
Is Unemployment a Choice in Somalia?
How We Got Into 67% of Unemployment? Ever since the collapse of the central government of Somalia, the country took a long stride to come to where it is today. All the governmental institutions collapsed and the private sector became the only lifeline for the nation. During these two decades of civil war, Somalia built […]
The Growing Somali Digital Economy: An Opportunity for the Youth
The Somali people are known to be an enterprising society with business ingenuity and a drive to excel in business, which is a cultural trait that has been sharpened by years of hardships and a continuous search for resilience. The migration of our people in the past 4 decades to the east, the west, and […]
Beyond the pandemics: What everyone should know in uncovering job opportunities
The world is ruled by uncertainties. The Covid-19 pandemic has brought unprecedented disruption to global job markets. Millions of people lost their jobs globally while millions of others are concerned about the growing disruption and transformation of the world of work. Additionally, the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a large-scale shift in the nature of […]
