The private sector, political elites and underdevelopment in Sub-Saharan Africa
Why are most Africans in Sub-Saharan Africa poor and why are they getting poorer while most people in the rest of the world are becoming better off?
China-Africa Trade and the Global Financial Crisis
The spectacular growth of emerging economies, especially China and India, had brought major hope among commentators/analysts that the developing world’s growth prospects would not be severely affected by the current financial crisis in the US and most of the developed world.
Emerging Powers and their Development Aid Policies
The intention of this closed brainstorming session was to explore the evolving development aid policies of the emerging powers while extracting lessons from the European development experience.
Emerging Powers and their Role in Global Economic Governance: Impetus for Reform
The phenomenal rise of China and India, but equally the growing assertion of other developing countries on the global stage such as Brazil and South Africa, has placed the debate about a reform agenda for global governance bodies squarely on the table.
‘Stepping up to the Plate: Emerging Powers and International Responsibility’
During 2007-08 the Konrad Adenauer Foundation commissioned five studies in the G5 countries that would examine these countries’ perspectives on global governance.
South African Objectives in the G20 Leaders Summit
To the apparent surprise of G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors meeting in Washington last month, George Bush, outgoing President of the United States of America (US), proposed that a formal summit of G20 heads of state convene in Washington on November 15th.
Towards a New ‘Washington Consensus’?
South Africa, The G-20 Leaders’ Summit and the Financial Crisis
November 24-25,2008; ‘Regional Economic Integration in Southern Africa: Beyond EPAs; Surviving Internal Fragmentation’
Though the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) negotiations between the EU and ACP countries are meant to inter alia promote regional integration, their immediate impact has been the further fragmentation of existing regional economic bodies across Africa (except for the EAC), even putting the sustainability of the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) into doubt.
Economic Partnership Agreements and Intellectual Property Rights protection: challenges for the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region
The negotiations for Economic Partnerships Agreements (EPAs) between African Caribbean and Pacific countries (ACP) and the European Union (EU) were launched in 2000.
A New Day in America – Lessons for Africa
For the first time in many years, a political event brought tears to my eyes as Barack Obama was elected at the 44th president of the United States of America.