The African Financial Review July-August 2014 | 页面 23

FINANCE

Emerging African
economies:
strategies for coping
with global financial
crisis
By Akanni, K.A.

The recent global economic recess has far
reaching implications on the stock market,
employment of labor and survival of the
production sector. Investors are poorly
compensated, jobs are lost in thousands
and hitherto viable industries are folding up.
The African economy is not spared either.
Policy makers and technocrats are now being
challenged in an attempt to arrive at workable
solutions to the current economic quagmire. In
this paper therefore, several economic indicators
were examined. The implications of the various
manifestations of the global financial crisis on
the economic indicators of the African economy
were investigated. Th W6R