March 3, 2016
Categories: Africa, NGOs, Recipients
Tags: africa, farming, girls, solar, strategies
https://www.c-span.org/video/standalone/?320904-4/usafrica-leaders-summit-spousal-program-part-6 U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit Spousal Program, Part 6 Panelists discussed empowering African women and girls to participate in economic growth and promoting healthy lives through technology and job training. An African agriculture scientist focused on how women and girls wee crucial to tackling the issue of food insecurity. Then speakers detailed their companies’ development projects. […]
January 6, 2016
Categories: Africa
Tags: africa, export, labor standards, trade
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement that was concluded on October 5, 2015. Comprising 12 countries including the United States, Japan, Canada, Mexico, Australia, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Chile, TPP countries represent 40 percent of global GDP, 25 percent of global exports, and 30 percent of global imports. The U.S. is also negotiating with the European Union […]
January 6, 2016
Categories: Africa
Tags: africa, urban development, urbanization
Development in African cities today is not in the megacities of Kinshasa, Lagos, and Cairo, but in intermediate cities that are directly linked with their surrounding environment. In the coming decades, migration toward African and Asian cities will account for 90 percent of population movements. Accordingly, African cities are now being forced to anticipate the […]
January 6, 2016
Categories: Africa
Tags: africa, commodity, human development, natural resources
The share of people in Africa living on less than $1.90 a day fell from 56 percent in 1990 to 43 percent in 2012. But only 27 out of the 48 countries examined had two or more comparable surveys in this period with which to track poverty. Substantial progress is also recorded in other dimensions […]
January 6, 2016
Categories: Africa
In 2015, sub-Saharan Africa experienced its slowest economic growth rate since the 1998 global financial crisis. According to the IMF, the region’s real GDP growth fell from 5.0 percent in 2014 to 3.75 percent in 2015 and will rebound to 4.3 percent in 2016. Given recent global and regional trends, it is likely that the […]