In this report, the second in the NEPAD POLICY FOCUS series published by SAIIA’s Nepad and Governance Project, Peter Farlam draws lessons from the experience of implementing public-private partnerships.
After a brief stop in Chad last week, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France went on to visit a country not traditionally part of the French area of influence in Africa – South Africa.
The South African government’s response to the report of the Panel of Eminent Persons of the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) was: “The assertion that illegal immigrants are subjected to brutal and inhuman treatment is strongly disputed.”
The SAIIA Trade Policy Briefing Series, published between 2003 and 2008, covers critical issues relating to South Africa’s overall trade strategy.
Several African countries made notable progress towards good governance this year, and there is reason to be optimistic that this trend should continue.
The despatching of 135 Chinese peacekeeping troops to the troubled Darfur region this week as part of the UN-AU hybrid force highlights the changing role that China is playing in Africa.
China is an enigma. It continues to be a communist state while at the same time depending on capitalist dynamics to achieve economic progress and a prosperous society.
All observers except for pathological optimists generally agree that the World Trade Organisation (WTO) is in trouble and needs cosmetic changes as well as some serious surgery.
The extravagance on show at the China-Africa Summit in Beijing last November marked the beginning of a consolidation of ties between the two regions.
Recently the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, which seeks to promote good governance by offering monetary incentives to African presidents who govern their nations properly, ranked the performance of 48 African governments.
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