Why is East Africa's Economy Growing Faster than Southern Africa?

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18 күн бұрын

This story follows the recent reports about the projected growths of east African countries and southern African countries. Why is one area growing faster than the other?
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@kabasochanda-bc8mq 3 сағат бұрын

This is the latest kindergarten drawing by an East African.we wait for the next drawing, as we keep enjoying our SOuthern African Comfort.

@playingserious9108 17 күн бұрын

This is my new favotite channel

@teoh3564 14 күн бұрын

Africa will be the next superpower ❤

@user-ty8fo2ld5i 17 күн бұрын

Good topic

@1devoch 14 күн бұрын

True. East Africa is big on diversity of their economies.

@kontuthu 14 күн бұрын

The south really needs to take note and learn from their examples.

@t1910j 7 күн бұрын

Great observation and deep insight. I agree with you and think that East Africa has been very strategic in investing on infrastructure.

@johnone6159 6 күн бұрын

I suspect that the Southern African growth rate is strongly correlated to that of South Africa due to its size relative to its neighbours. What happens if you adjust for that, or remove it since it’s an outlier. Also what are the growth rates of individual countries?

@trmangena2463 17 күн бұрын

Me too ,l love 🌍news especially when it concerns development

@teoh3564 14 күн бұрын

❤ Association of East African Nations (AEAN)❤

@kontuthu 14 күн бұрын

You guys are winning 💪🏿 love the developments happening there.

@fredrickkinyua562 6 күн бұрын

Eac invests on labour capital as a resource diversify with your human capital. Extractive industry is laziness

@biggeststeppa1 Күн бұрын

Only 17% of Kenyans old enough to work have a formal job, vs an average of 70% in the SACU.

@jilokizito1705 2 күн бұрын

I love your work! Just as a reiteration, you'll realize that when South Africa goes down, it means Lesotho, Eswatini, and Zimbabwe go down with her. Only Botswana and Namibia are making great strides and seem like they can go it their own. S.A is already on a downward spiral. It also has more unique challenges than any other African country. East African countries are a bit different. Also, these two regions have different relations among their people; they've different types of investments and resources.

@kontuthu 9 сағат бұрын

Thanks for watching. I'm very scared for the southern regions particularly Zimbabwe as we depend so much on imports from South Africa. We are too behind. I don't know how Namibia and Botswana have just subtly did their own things quietly. Maybe an idea for another video haha.

@InamMaqondose-ny8zf 7 сағат бұрын

@@kontuthuno even Botswana and Namibia heavily, heavily depend on South Africa, they even have a saying that, “when South Africa sneezes we catch a cold “😂 so ya

@fud338 Күн бұрын

Keep dreaming..l haven't seen any decline..not now..not in the near future..southern African countries esp SA..not only dependent on mineral resources..also agriculture..tourism..manufacturing 😂😂😂

@neliswamzimane4904 4 күн бұрын

Zimbabwe is an east african coutry culturally and geographically speaking I recognise five southern african countries and all are small geographiaclly but still leave a mark on the economic and industial sector of the continent 🧐

@thabaninkomo6726 2 күн бұрын

Uyayazi na imap yaseAfrica?

@siyabulelamlungwana8181 2 күн бұрын

Zimbabwe, botswana, eswatini, lesotho, and South africa are southern African countries. Namibia is west, and Mozambique is east .Zimbabwe (bulawayo) we share cultures and languages ,bulawayo has SeTswana, sesotho,isixhosa, isindebele, venda, and San speaking people. shona people of zimbabwe are from West, East, or Central africa .wena msunu.

@jilokizito1705 2 күн бұрын

Lol

@neliswamzimane4904 2 күн бұрын

@@siyabulelamlungwana8181 OK unditukelani kengoku mnqundu

@raymondsepheu581 5 күн бұрын

Bro. Are you suggesting that SOuth African world class infrastructure is outdated?

@jilokizito1705 2 күн бұрын

Yes, S.A and Namibia have the best infrastructure, but again do you realise that South Africa's infrastructure is getting wasted and vandalised gradually each passing day? Some industries have collapsed. Roads are no longer being well maintained unless it's in certain provinces like W.C. The state of that infrastructure is becoming quickly as dilapidated as the country's downward spiral economically. While these E.A countries are growing, S.A is collapsing.

@jilokizito1705 2 күн бұрын

It's being vandalized each passing day, and you can't compare the South Africa of today, 2024, with that of 2020. The S.A government isn't doing it any favour, too. The thing is, South Africa's so-called world-class infrastructure isn't world-class anymore. Ask those who've been around for over 50 years, and they'll tell you.

@Simphiweful Күн бұрын

And their currency is useless in east africa 😂😂

@jilokizito1705 Күн бұрын

@@Simphiweful it's not a matter of name-calling. It's a simple economic discourse.

@InamMaqondose-ny8zf 6 сағат бұрын

@@jilokizito1705no the problem with South African infrastructure is that we tend to rather build something new than to take care of something old, so the matter of SA infrastructure being dilapidated isn’t because infrastructure in general is falling, but it’s just that in some areas it has, but none the less more infrastructure is being built much more, much faster than the old dies out, so the matter of the fact isn’t that SAs infrastructure is getting less it’s just that we are getting more while at the same time neglecting the old

@user-pi7cw9mh9n 16 күн бұрын

In East Africa they do free trade, they don't use passports like what we do in sadc, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia must ban passports

@kontuthu 14 күн бұрын

Borderless Africa is on the horizon. It's the only way to capitalize on the Africa free trade area.

@BonsuBigWhale Күн бұрын

Only EAC cou tries minus DRC have the starsintent of ceding rheir nationhood sovereignty andrepu lics to merge into a new entity. South Afrika does not have that same intent. So East is free to remove their borders. They will still respect the borders of others who. Hoose to maintain them...

@robertocaricocofiel2639 15 сағат бұрын

Nop

@INNOVATION_MOVEMENT 7 күн бұрын

Very good observation ❤ addition the SADC is very very weak compared to AEAN

@InamMaqondose-ny8zf 6 сағат бұрын

SADC is the most developed, powerful, stable and financially superior region on the continent followed by North Africa then East Africa, so no you are wrong on that, I mean some of the East African region members would rather have duplicate sittings in both EA and Southern Africa, that shows that they don’t even fully trust their EAn region enough to commit to being a full member of it

@josephnakale7343 2 күн бұрын

How is that growth cascading to the men on the streets?What is quality of life when comparing two regions?

@jilokizito1705 2 күн бұрын

Easier. Just travel to the regions and you'll see. You're talking Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Ethiopia, etc, vs. South Africa, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Eswatini, Namibia, and Botswana. S.A is the giant but what about the life of Blacks? Only Namibia and Botswana make sense down here.

@josephnakale7343 2 күн бұрын

@@jilokizito1705 Well I am a Namibian and probably agreeing with you on this one.I have visited Kenya, Tanzania and Ethiopia among others few years back.I was then working in South Sudan when I got a chance to visit those countries. I don't like comparing countries bcs each country is unique. However I can say I saw a huge difference as many aspects of life are concerned when I was there.

@jilokizito1705 2 күн бұрын

@@josephnakale7343 Yes, it's Namibia and then Botswana that are doing great. When hell breaks lose in S.A. Namibia will have to contain most of the people from S.A, Eswatini, Lesotho, and Zim. It's only Nambia that's doing very well.

@josephnakale7343 2 күн бұрын

@@jilokizito1705 Yes many of us are worrying at the moment, and watching the situation with there with keen interest, hoping everything will be fine.

@jilokizito1705 2 күн бұрын

@@josephnakale7343 I doubt it will before it breaks down. With this much poverty, crime, corruption and unemployment, it's coming.

@biggeststeppa1 Күн бұрын

The days of China recklessly giving East Africa cheap loans are over lmao. You're going back to business as usual

@kontuthu 9 сағат бұрын

This does seem to be the case as China is still waiting on a return on their investments. It's been a double edged sword since most countries in Africa rely on external funding to build their economies.

@biggeststeppa1 9 сағат бұрын

@@kontuthu It's not a matter of opinion. China's loans went from $20-billion in 2015 to less than $1-billion in 2022.

@Araplimosnr 3 күн бұрын

Most Southern Africa nations, especially South Africa, are still great 👍. Just that they got independence recently compared to the Eastern front, who have been independent for almost 80 yrs. Another key important aspect is the population, which gives the East an upper hand. With time, they will beat the East, given that the Southern front has little corruption index, good governance systems, and abundant natural resources. East Africa 🌍 poor planning will slow the front progress in the near future.

@jilokizito1705 2 күн бұрын

Yes, but they're on a downward spiral.

@felixdatche9278 19 сағат бұрын

why do you feel all the fronts East and South cannot both rise together? Do you think that it is a competition to beat the other, this is not sport?

@InamMaqondose-ny8zf 7 сағат бұрын

But South Africa grew its GDP by over 100% is just 20 years, so you have no excuse for your countries government to not have its proper priorities in check

@jilokizito1705 6 сағат бұрын

@@InamMaqondose-ny8zf corruption happened.

@mrmoyo2772 5 күн бұрын

You wanna know why? As a Southern African who is greatly exposed to East and Southern Africa,l will tell you this: 1. The unity in southern Africa culturally is weaker than in the east. 2. East Africans aren't filled with an inferiority complex in the presence of a white man like Southern Africans do evidenced by their politicians being remote controlled by the USA and UK. Only Ruto is like Southern presidents in East Africa. 3. Eadt Africa has must in economics to exchange than Southern Africa. 4. East Africa has a culture of productivity and building synergies than Southern Africa with a culture of consumption and breaking bridges. At community level,East Africans are authentic and Southern Africans are extravagant in white collar jobs that kill development at grassroots level. Huu niukweli.Ninaongea hivi maana ninajua kila sehemu ya Africa mashariki na kusini.

@neliswamzimane4904 4 күн бұрын

WHICH SOUTHERN AFRICAN COUNTRY ARE YOU FROM

@Araplimosnr 3 күн бұрын

You never mentioned population, which should have come on top.

@fud338 Күн бұрын

We don't speak this language in Southern Africa 😊

@mrmoyo2772 Күн бұрын

@@fud338 Yes it's true.Untravelled Southern Africans don't speak Swahili. They speak either only Chewa,Tswana,Zulu,Xhlosa,Shona or Ndebele. But l tell you one great thing in life is social intelligence. Know other cultures and languages in your life and make traveling in your work or business memorable.There's life beyond the horizon across SADC and East Africa. Even far in the NORDIC countries beyond in the Scandinavia, there's life in Tampere and Kajani.

@mrmoyo2772 Күн бұрын

@Simphiweful Күн бұрын

We have east africans in southern Africa and they don't wanna go back home U cannot even compare our currencies Pula, Rand and Namibian dollar are heavy bro Keep on dreaming SA is king even the entire black Africa they depend on Dstv for satellite SA banks including PnP, Shoprite they are all over africa

@felixdatche9278 19 сағат бұрын

British Pound is 'heavier' than the US Dollar or the Yen, but is the British economy bigger or stronger than the two??? It is this level of basic ignorance that is hurting Southern Africa, just chanting Zuma and Malema songs all day instead of filling up your brains with basic knowledge.

@pheliesignature2788 5 сағат бұрын

Don't argue before you make research my friend that the things our south african people were they fails all over social media platforms

@Simphiweful Күн бұрын

5000 Pula is equivalent to 47,566.04 Kenyan Shillings🙆🏾‍♂️😂😂 Man if your currency is low it means your people can't even afford to buy bread U can compare east africa with central Africa bro Compare South with north

@felixdatche9278 19 сағат бұрын

were you herding zebras when everyone else was going to school to learn a thing or two about currencies...Japanese Yen is definitely 'weaker' than the Pula, but Japanese economic might is a million times that of your nation... Kenya is richer than your country too, it is not in the currency exchange rates pugaaa

@kontuthu 9 сағат бұрын

Hahahaha. The comparisons made are based on percentage growth of the east compared to the south. Unfortunately places like Zimbabwe hurt the averages when making the comparisons. Also lenders seem more invested in pouring money in the east since their output as a region is growing fast.

@Araplimosnr 6 сағат бұрын

@@Simphiweful You got it wrong

@ichooseviolence2532 6 сағат бұрын

Tunisia Dinar is strongest currency in African continent yet many African countries are richer than Tunisia