PAP and Peer Review: Enhancing Involvement, Adding Value
Peering the Peers is a collection of contributions from a conference on the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) hosted by the Electoral Institute for the Sustainability of Democracy in Africa (EISA) in Maputo, Mozambique in 2008.
SA risks being left behind in fertile Angola
Africa has become the site of a new era of neo-mercantilism characterised by rivalries between established and new economic powers.
Development Aid for Infrastructure Investment in Africa: Malian Relations with China, the European Commission and the World Bank
This paper compares the terms of a selection of infrastructure aid contracts entered into by the government of Mali with both ‘traditional’ and ‘non-traditional’ donors.
Asian Values and African Choices
The economic rise of Asia has provoked an intermittent intellectual struggle that posits “Asian values” as opposed to Western ways.
Promoting Dialogue on Trade Reform in South Africa: Trade, Industrial Policies and the Exchange Rate (March, 2010)
In South Africa (SA), the economic recession coupled with the strengthening currency has prompted analysts and politicians to debate whether the authorities should leave the rand to be determined by market forces or intervene to manage it.
SA is Squandering International Goodwill through Rudderless Foreign Policy
President Zuma’s state visit to the United Kingdom this week brings welcome respite and prestige to a Presidency under forensic scrutiny, yet it also raises probing questions about South Africa’s international relations policy in the post-Mbeki era.
From Isolation to Integration? A Study of Chinese Retailers in Dakar
Starting from the late 1990s, more and more Chinese have migrated to Senegal, concentrating and opening small shops along the Boulevard Général de Gaulle, one of the major roads in Dakar.
Aid to Africa: What can the EU and China Learn from Each Other?
With China’s increasing role in Africa, the issue of aid to Africa has been high on the China–EU agenda and the subject of considerable debate.
Security and Development in sub-Saharan Africa: Looking to the Future
By Moeletsi Mbeki
Securing a Social Licence to Operate? From Stone Age to New Age Mining in Tanzania
Despite its relatively nascent operations, commercial mining is becoming a significant contributor to the Tanzanian economy and has the potential to become more so.