International reserves enough to hold currency peg Zorena Jantze THE Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Bank of Namibia (BoN) left the Repo rate unchanged at 6.75% contrary to expectations by anal ...

WEEKLY market review 28  November  to 4  December  2018 The local market was very active this week, with the NSX Local index down 1.96% at 619, and the NSX Overall Index down 0.76% to close at 1260. A ...

Making progress on realisation of PPPs Zorena Jantze FACING increasingly constrained budgets and with an inability to generate additional revenues, many governments have turned to partnerships with th ...

THE Bank of Namibia (BoN) and the Development Bank of Namibia (DBN) this week signed a Memorandum of Agreement that will operationalise the Government’s SME Financing Strategy. Speaking at the press b ...

Staff Reporter THE Bank of Namibia (BoN) has released selected statistical data for September 2018 that cover, amongst others, the extension of credit to the private sector (PSCE). Total credit extend ...

Challenges to keep pace with global competitiveness THE Minister of Information and Communication Technology, Stanley Simataa, is of the opinion that digital transformation can be a solution to Namibi ...

IN the latest housing index by FNB Namibia, Group Economist Namene Kalili noted that the stage has been set for lower housing demand. Kalili highlighted that the lower demand for housing is based on e ...

IN an effort to reconcile their books and take care of liabilities, the Government Institutions Pension Fund (GIPF) has revealed that it has significantly brought down the number of unclaimed benefact ...

WEEKLY market review17 October to 23 October  2018 The local market was subdued this week, with the NSX Local index down 0.02% at 625, and the NSX Overall Index down 2.31% to close at 1237. As at 23 O ...

Zorena Jantze THE Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR) earlier this week released its Procurement Tracker Namibia (PTN) in which it lamented government on its lack of transparency in public tend ...