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En Afrique comme ailleurs, les jeunes restent une ressource essentielle en matière de développement des sociétés, d’innovations technologiques et de progrès social. Si les années 1990 ont été marquées par des expatriations en partie causées par l’autarcie, le manque d’opportunités et le chômage,…
Aujourd’hui, nous vivons dans un monde où les blocs régionaux ne peuvent plus fonctionner en autarcie. Les pays du Sud cessent progressivement de regarder « vers le haut » pour regarder de plus en plus « horizontalement ». Et ils ont raison de le faire : le renforcement des liens entre les blocs…
On the occasion of the AfDB 2016 Annual meetings in Lusaka, Zambia, the NEPAD co-organized the Second Continental Business Network (CBN) meetings with the African Union and the African Development Bank (AfDB) as well as a support from the Development Bank of Southern Africa and Barclays Bank. I…
On the occasion of its 51st Assembly ending today in Lusaka, I would like to write about the role of the African Development Bank (AfDB), that is particularly crucial for Africa’s development. Indeed, it is hard to come around the vast array of its missions, which is a pity as this institution has…
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has assumed the leadership of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), promising to consolidate peace and security, and calling on member states to work even harder to defeat terrorism.
President Sirleaf takes over from Senegalese President…
Food security is more than a critical issue: 795 millions people* around the world are suffering from starvation. Sadly, Africa has the highest proportion of people (one in four*) suffering from chronic hunger,a problem that is both persistent and widespread. This is the consequence of the rapid…
The technological leap has been one of the big themes of the African economic history for the past 10 years. Today, it represents a huge transformative potential insofar as infrastructure development and socio-economic challenges are concerned.
Africa has, indeed, taken the bull by the horns in…
African agriculture is no longer a traditional way of life, it is a business. And like any other, it will grow, through investment and access to markets. The African farmer, like any other entrepreneur, and perhaps even more so, needs to take into account the uncertain nature of business. The…
Dakar – “Entrepreneurship can be taught,” Dr Ibrahim Mayaki, NEPAD Agency CEO declared at the 18th Session of the Regional Coordination Mechanism, held in Dakar, Senegal. “The onus is on all of us – political, policy, technical, public sector, private sector, civil society – to create and sustain…
Nobel economist Jan Tinbergen has shown in his work the negative impacts that the exploitation of natural resources can have on the economics of a country, based on the example of the Netherlands with the extraction of natural gas in the 1960s. Since then, the “Dutch disease” theory has evolved to…