Category Foresight Africa

By Dr. Sajitha Bashir, World Bank The scale of China’s engagement in Sub-Saharan Africa is impressive and is expected to grow substantially if future projections of Chinese investments materialize. By 2013, China accounted for a quarter of all SSA trade.…

Think Mobility By Prof. L Alan Winters – Professor of Economics, University of Sussex, also of CEPR, IZA and GDN Mobility would seem to be the very essence of trade: if things don’t move, there is no trade. This is…

By Dr. Cosmas Ochieng, former Executive Director, ACTS Abstract A combination of robust economic performance and an uptick in scientific and technological indicators over the last two decades has given rise to exuberant assessments of Africa’s development prospects in the 21st…

By Prof. Michael Lofchie, Department of Political Science, UCLA A vehicle for progressive change or more of the same? History offers sobering lessons for those concerned with the prospects of broad based development in Africa. Entrenched political oligarchies do not willingly surrender…

By Dr. Joanes Atela, ACTS Unpacking Public Private Partnership (PPP) Public-private partnership (PPP) has become a central driver of climate change actions- both in negotiations and implementation. Whether on clean energy, sustainable forest management or even climate smart agriculture, PPP…

By Winnie Khaemba, ACTS Context ‘You have been negotiating all my life’ lamented a Youth NGO’s Constituency  (YOUNGO) representative while making an intervention at a UNFCCC COP 17 session in Durban, South Africa in 2011. Four years on, the world is…

By: Kennedy Liti Mbeva, ACTS Energy poverty is one of the major challenges holding back Africa’s transformation agenda, as clearly articulated in the African Union’s Agenda 2063[1]. About 70% of the African population is not connected to the electricity grid, yet…

By Dr. Joanes Atela, ACTS Sustainable development Sustainable development (SD) remains a landmark policy and global development agenda since the 1992 Convention on Environment and Development. Anchored on the Brutland Commission report ‘Our Common Future’, sustainable development articulates the urge to…

By Dr. Cosmas Ochieng, former Executive Director, ACTS “In our world in which the generation of new knowledge and its application to change the human condition is the engine which moves human society further away from barbarism, do we not have…

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