by The Fikiria Desk | Mar 12, 2026 | Intellectual
Every East African government now wants a fintech hub, and most will try to copy the country that keeps being held up as the template. Rwanda’s FinTech Centre and Innovate Rwanda platform, launched on 12 March, are the latest expression of a strategic model the...
by The Fikiria Desk | Mar 26, 2025 | Intellectual
Somalia is not the obvious place to look for a strategic template in payments. Two decades of institutional rebuilding, a dual-currency economy and one of the world’s most informal financial systems make it an outlier rather than a model. Yet on 26 March 2025...
by The Fikiria Desk | Jan 10, 2025 | Intellectual
A stock exchange is often treated as a building or a ticker. It is better understood as a strategic model — a specific answer to the question of how a state opens its capital account without losing control of the sequence. Ethiopia’s version, launched on 10...
by The Fikiria Desk | Sep 9, 2024 | Intellectual
Rwanda is often described as a model, which is precisely why it deserves scrutiny as one. A model is not just a record of what worked in one place; it is a claim that the logic can travel. On 9 September 2024, the government published the National Strategy for...
by The Fikiria Desk | Jul 29, 2024 | Intellectual
Every reforming government wants the credibility of a market without the pain of getting there, and most discover the two cannot be separated. Ethiopia’s decision on 29 July 2024 to float the birr, announced by the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE), is best read...