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Nhlanhla is a recent graduate from the University of Swaziland with an MSc in Agricultural Sciences. At the age of 25, she is full of life and has many dreams for herself and her five siblings, many of them either unemployed or underemployed. Nhlanhla dreams of a future where she would be able to…
Official Bio President Macky Sall
A new, revised and supplemented edition of the atlas A New Emerging Rural World - An Overview of Rural Change in Africa is just out. It was officially launched at the second Africa Rural Development Forum, organized by NEPAD in Yaoundé from 8 to 10 September 2016. The atlas reports on the…
I have the great honor to have been appointed Independent Advisor by the UN to support the second phase of the ECOSOC Dialogue on the longer-term positioning of the UN development system in the context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
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Today, in Africa, too many young women remain outside the reach of what should be their full economic and self-empowerment potential. A new ILO report (Young and Female : a double strike?) based on the school-to-work transitions surveys of 32 developing countries concludes that being young and…
Today I have read an excellent article in The Economist: it shows the importance of regional integration through the prism of internal trade. The analysis in this article is sad and yet true : “whether to protect their dominance or avoid hardship, most countries revert to protectionism”, even if “…
Unemployment affects the vast majority of young people on the African continent. There are several reasons for this: the global financial crisis, the demographic explosion of the continent, but also, and I would like to address this today, the issue of training.
Today, half of the 1.1 billion of…