In recent times, attention is turning to the role of the private sector in delivering quality health care. This was a key point at the Third International Conference on Financing for Development held in July 2015 at Addis Ababa. The President of Kenya, H.E Uhuru Kenyatta remarked at the event, that, “for all that progress, […]
Africa
What to expect from the Addis Ababa Financing for Development Conference
On Monday 13 July, world leaders will gather in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, for the third Financing for Development summit (FFD3). On the agenda: work out where the money will come from to fund the two processes that start this year and aim to change the future for people and planet. As Jim Yong Kim, […]
PwC Report Predicts Increased Infrastructure Investment in Africa
Dealing with Africa’s infrastructure backlogs and its future demands is high on the agenda of leaders and civil society on the continent and abroad. While the continent’s infrastructure currently lags behind that of the rest of the world with some 30 per cent in a dilapidated condition, there is widespread recognition of the vast business […]
Africa Leaders sign ‘Cape to Cairo’ free trade bloc deal
African leaders signed Wednesday a 26-nation free trade pact to create a common market that would span half the continent from Cairo to Cape Town. The Tripartite Free Trade Area (TFTA) deal, which must still be fine-tuned and ratified, caps five years of talks to set up a framework for preferential tariffs to ease the […]
Agriculture will drive Africa’s rise to economic power
I was in Mali recently where I met a woman, Maimouna Coulibaly, who several years ago left her job in the United States and returned to her home country to start a seed company called Faso Kaba. She quickly and confidently ramped up production, from 100 tons per year to over 1,000. She is eager […]
Can Mobile Financial Services Bring an End To Poverty?
An estimated 2.5 billion adults do not have access to banks. Unsurprisingly, they are among the world’s most destitute: According to a report released by the World Bank and other development groups, about three out of four adults living on less than $2 a day, from farmers in Tanzania to slum-dwellers in India to seamstresses […]
African Economies to Grow 4.5% on Average in 2015
NAIROBI- Africa’s fitful and uneven economic growth will gain momentum this year and next, three prominent organizations said in a joint report released on Monday. Continue reading at: Wall Street Journal