African Peer Review: Removing Itself from a Rut?
The African Peer Review Mechanism – the continent’s home-grown governance assessment and promotion tool – seems to be slowly turning its fortunes around. On 6-7 September, it will hold a workshop in Sandton discussing how to implement its first ever five year strategy for 2016-2020.
Speaking to development and growth: The G20 summit in Hangzhou
As the full extent of the potential for the world to enter into a Great Depression became clearer in 2008, the G20 Finance meeting was elevated to a Leaders 20, a point that had for some years been advocated by former Canadian prime minister, Paul Martin, among others.
CITES Alone Cannot Combat Illegal Wildlife Trade
The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) will address the growing threat from illegal trade at its forthcoming Conference of the Parties (CoP17).
The 2016 World Conservation Congress: Exploring a Win–Win Agenda for People and the Planet
The World Conservation Congress (WCC), one of the world’s largest environmental gatherings, is convened every four years under the auspices of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) to find collaborative solutions to conserve global biodiversity and ecosystems, and harness the solutions nature offers to global development challenges.
Capturing The Rains: A Comparative Study of Chinese Involvement in Cameroon’s Hydropower Sector
China is becoming a significant player in infrastructure construction around the world. In low-income countries in Africa and Asia, where infrastructure deficits have historically been a bottleneck to economic growth and investment, hydropower is one area in which Chinese financial resources and domestic expertise could contribute to energy infrastructure and security.
Oil and Fisheries in Ghana: Prospects for a Socio-ecological Compact
Fisheries play a crucial role in supporting livelihoods and food security in Ghana. While there is a sizable industrial fishing fleet, more than two-thirds of Ghana’s total marine fish catch is accounted for by artisanal fishers.
Corruption: A barrier to Africa rising
The slowdown of the African economy – due to declining Chinese demand for raw materials, unsustainable, uneven growth and the potential Brexit fallout – calls into question the hopeful ‘Africa Rising’ narrative.
From first-mover advantage to coming from behind: A new phase of the Japan-Africa partnership
When the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) was launched in 1993 by Japan in co-operation with the World Bank, the UN, and the UN Development Programme, it was the first such initiative of one country seeking to deepen its partnership with Africa.
Understanding the Angolan FDI Regulatory Landscape
This paper explores the regulatory framework for foreign direct investment (FDI) in Angola, with the objective of broadening understanding of the barriers to foreign investment in the country.
Mozambique: options for multi-sector approaches to FDI
Historically, Mozambique has relied heavily on aid flows to finance post-war reconstruction. It is also Africa’s biggest recipient of overseas development assistance (ODA) – about 50% of government spending is financed from ODA. Post-war economic reconstruction efforts came mainly in the form of large projects focused on rebuilding the country’s infrastructure.