Africa needs structural transformation not structural adjustment
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Global Value Chains: Africa, the factory floor of the world?
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Cape Verde development trajectory; a lesson for Africa
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Can trade make a difference in Africa?
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Africa can invent: Leapfrogging in unsuspected areas
One only needs to pick up a magazine or leading newspaper to read about innovations that are sweeping across Africa. From M-Pesa, a mobile money transfer service invented in Kenya that has revolutionized African banking practices, to South Africa hosting the Square Kilometer Array, the world’s largest and most powerful radio telescope ever constructed. This is quite different from common perception. Should Africa’s attainments come as a surprise?
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Moving from early Pan-Africanism towards an African Renaissance
The celebration of fifty years of Pan-African institutional history is a time for reflection. Like the famous mythical Sankofa bird symbol, Africans must look into their past to create their future; acknowledging our previous mistakes and learning from them but also celebrating our successes and building on them.
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