Intelligence from the Ground Up

Wiza Jalakasi has spent fifteen years building the infrastructure layer that makes African digital economies run. What he has learned about capital, fragmentation, and the continent's future is not what most investors expect to hear. When I spoke to Wiza Jalakasi he was in Johannesburg, about to leave

How much of a month's income does it take to connect to the world? For Ireland, the answer is three percent. For Central African Republic, it is 1,984 percent. Runwayindex.org is measuring how much of a country's income does it actually cost to fly?

Key Takeaway • The gap between the richest and poorest countries sharing the “emerging markets” label has grown from roughly 10x in 1988 to 25x today: Qatar at $77,000 GDP per capita, India at $3,050. • Emerging markets now account for approximately 35% of global GDP at nominal value. Adjusted