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All items tagged AfricaOpen Think Tank ArticlesJuly 31, 2008 | Bashir's Prosecution Will Not Ruin the Chances for Peace in DarfurAriela Blätter: Many fear that the International Criminal Court’s charges against the Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir will have “disastrous consequences” for the peace process in Darfur. This, however, could only be true if there was evidence of a real and substantive peace process in the first place. ... MoreFebruary 6, 2008 | Multilateral Aid Programs Are on the LineRobert Zoellick: The president of the World Bank expresses his concern regarding the German focus on bilateral aid programs in an interview with Rüdiger Lentz, head of the Deutsche Welle studio in Washington and executive director USA of the Atlantic Initiative. ... MoreGlobal Must Read ArticlesSeptember 4, 2008 | Aid to Africa: Too Much of a Good Thing?Many countries in Africa suffer from a stifling dependence on foreign aid and actually receive more money in aid than they do collecting taxes. ++ This imbalance is detrimental to the citizens as the government is more concerned with the interests of the aid donors than its own people. ++ Donors should, therefore, limit their aid to no more than 50 percent of what a government can collect in tax ... MoreJuly 16, 2008 | Meaningless Indictment of the Sudanese PresidentThe International Criminal Court’s resolution to seek an arrest warrant for Sudanese president Omar Bashir was hailed as a step towards stopping the bloodshed in Darfur. ++ In fact, this decision will not change anything and is yet another example of what seems to be an inverse correlation between the Western world’s declarations on Darfur and the actions it actually takes. ++ If the ... MoreJuly 9, 2008 | Financial Aid is Not the Answer to Africa's ProblemsFinancial aid will not solve the problem of food security in Africa. ++ Western succor is the main source of revenue for corrupt sub-Saharan African governments. ++ An effective way to help the Africans is to remove the trade barriers that cripple the development of their economy. ++ World Bank figures reveal that removing taxes and tariffs on agricultural goods and fertilizers would bring Africa ... MoreJuly 3, 2008 | The Rise of Private Equity in AfricaThough Africa still accounts for only a fraction of the global private equity market, the spread of stable democracy and rapid economic evolution make it increasingly attractive for US and European investors. ++ Private capital flow into sub-Saharan Africa increased fourfold since 2000, a trend reflected by Kingdom Zephyr’s recent decision to put $325m into a pan-African buy-out fund. ++ ... MoreJune 4, 2008 | Urgency and Potential of the Global Food CrisisProviding food to starving populations - currently under discussion at the summit on the global food crisis in Rome - is less of a challenge than the problem of raising the world’s agricultural productivity in the long term. ++ Industrialized countries need to increase investment in untapped and unproductive agricultural parts of Africa. ++ If this next green revolution occurs in a “greener” and ... MoreMay 16, 2008 | The Return of the Rwanda conflictBrought up by their fathers - the men responsible for the mass killings back in Rwanda - or by extremist Hutu rebels, the second generation of Hutu child soldiers has grown up.++ They are imbued with the same mind-altering ideology of extermination as during the genocide and reared to hate and murder Tutsis. ++ Most of the children are members of the FDLR’s armed wing, known as a terrorist ... MoreMay 7, 2008 | Pan-Africanism is the Voice of African SovereigntyAfrican leaders are less reluctant to grant China access to their markets and resources because its aid is not conditional on good governance, democracy, or human rights. ++ The West and the UN’s attempts to tackle conflict, disease, and hunger are perceived as dictatorial re-colonization strategies aiming at challenging the Chinese. ++ Resistance to the US Africa Command has led to calls ... MoreApril 25, 2008 | UN Calls for Mobilization Against a "Relentless Killer"Means to end malaria – a preventable and treatable disease – are today’s focus for the international community on the first ever World Malaria Day. ++ Malaria kills over a million people a year, costs billions, and slows economic growth and development in regions where it is endemic. ++ Since a globalized world knows no borders, international action is needed to ensure universal ... MoreApril 24, 2008 | The Food Crisis is a Problem of ProductivityIt is important that high crop prices are not equated with world hunger since the well fed rather than the truly hungry are dependent on international food markets. ++ In South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, where hunger is the worst, the problem is not high food prices but low farming productivity. ++ The long-term focus should be on improving agricultural productivity in Africa rather than food ... MoreApril 14, 2008 | Africa's Fragile Triumph Over Global Financial TurmoilThe rise of American philanthropy and foreign investment, as well as the need for raw materials are protecting Africa’s frontier economies from international economic volatility. ++ Yet a slowdown in the US and EU could lead to the decrease of the significant cash April 11, 2008 | India Competes with China in the Scramble for AfricaSince Africa is both a source of natural resources and an outlet for manufactures, it is an area where India and China’s needs overlap. ++ China’s July 26, 2007 | The Economist: Progress Towards UN Millennium Development Goals Varies WidelyThe UN has declared July 2007 the halfway point towards its Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), agreed upon in 2000 and scheduled to be achieved in 2015. The Economist magazine takes a close look at the interim results and comes to the conclusion that less has been achieved than the UN claims. Even though indicators such as the percentage of people living on less than one dollar a day are ... MoreCommentsJune 8, 2007 | It seems to me that both commentators have... |
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