Africa Day Should Spur Renewed Drive to Get Serious About Growth and Jobs
press release
In the run-up to Africa Day on 25 May, it is important to highlight the Western Cape Government’s continuing drive to create opportunities for growth and jobs by positioning the region to benefit from the untapped trade [...]
Africa: Web Tool Tracks Insecticide-Resistant Malaria Mosquitoes
Nairobi — An online mapping system to track insecticide resistance in malaria-causing mosquitoes around the world has been launched.
The free interactive website identifies places in more than 50 malaria-endemic countries where mosquitoes [...]
Africa: How Impact Sourcing Is Creating Opportunity
An emerging set of business leaders has found a promising solution to both drive efficiency and tackle unemployment. Impact Sourcing is the growing segment of the global business process outsourcing and IT outsourcing sectors that intentionally [...]
Africa: The Rockefeller Foundation Announces New Initiative to Create Digital Jobs in Africa
press release
Pledges nearly $100 million to impact One million lives in six countries through leverage and private sector partnership
CAPE TOWN, South Africa, May 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Dr. Judith Rodin, President of The Rockefeller [...]
Africa: FDI to Africa On Continuous Rise
Nairobi — Africa’s share of global foreign direct investment (FDI) has grown to 5.6 percent over the past five years from 3.2 percent, highlighting the growing interest from foreign investors, according to Ernst & Young’s third [...]
AfDB’s African Financial Markets Initiative Launches Website on African Local Currency Bond Markets
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The African Financial Markets Initiative (AFMI), managed by the African Development Bank (AfDB), will launch its website www.africanbondmarkets.org on May 6, 2013.
The AFMI website is designed to be a knowledge management and information [...]
Business Opportunity Seminar – “Boosting African Private Sector Through Financing and Business Opportunities”
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Africa’s Structural Transformation is highly dependent on a strong and competitive private sector.
Boosting African private sector entails providing support in improving the business environment and access to market opportunities; [...]
Africa: Why Africa Needs Its Own Ivy League Institution
analysis
Africa is suffering from high graduate unemployment and many of its best students and researchers are flocking overseas. Could an African elite university turn this around?
Casual readers of optimistic headlines about Africa’s [...]
AfDB Provides U.S. $38 Million for Skills Development and Job Creation
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The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) and the government of Rwanda, on April 16, 2013 in Kigali, signed financing agreements amounting to UA 25.61 million (USD 38 million) for a skills, employability and entrepreneurship program. [...]
Africa: A Role for PPPs in African Infrastructure
Scaling up financing from the traditional sources of taxes, government borrowing, and aid will not be adequate to successfully address Africa’s infrastructure gap.
Across Africa, investments in infrastructure have failed to keep pace with [...]
