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Leadership & Progress Brief
Leadership & Governance Capacity Building in
African Countries: Why and How Well-Off and Accomplished Africans,
Especially "Brain
Drain" Africans, Should Proactively Take Charge of Fostering
African Progress
"Making Leaders".
The
Economist. 24 July 2003. ALPN director, Dr. Michael Isimbabi's
letter in response to The
Economist's
cover story, "Now for Africa" (03 July
2003).
African Progress: Afro-Pessimism
Redux?
A sampling of recent reports and diverse viewpoints on the
prospects for African progress
The
listing below is by no means comprehensive; it is continually
expanded and updated. Suggestions of articles, papers, and other
documents that merit inclusion in the list are welcome. Please send
links or articles/documents to: editor@africanprogress.net.
The listing is largely in reverse
chronological
order.
Also on this
website:
New Africa & the G8 - 2005 G8 Summit - Reports,
Commentaries, Analyses
New Brain
Drain, Brain Gain, Brain Circulation, Diaspora Africans, and
Capacity Building in
Africa
The Blair Commission for
Africa: Commentaries &
Critiques
Perspectives on
African Leadership, NEPAD, the African Union,
Etc.
The Resource Curse -
Governance - Transparency - Corruption - Natural Resource Management
Amoako's Africa Diary
[Blog]. Reflections
on African development from the head of the UN's Economic Commission
for Africa.
Special report: Hear Africa
05.
The Guardian
(UK)
The UN Summit: Beyond Words to Action.
Salih Booker, The Financial Mail
(S.A.),
September 28, 2005
Africa's time has come - and may have gone. Larry Elliott. The Guardian (UK).
September 19, 2005.
Millennium
Goals: 'A Miserable Performance,' Mbeki Scolds UN Summit. Paula
Fray. Inter Press Service (S.A.). September 16, 2005.
UN 2005
World Summit - September
2005
The Millennium Development Goals in Africa –
Progress and Challenges.
UN Economic
Commission for Africa. Sept
2005
Poor
nations lose in watered-down UN document · Final draft a bland
version of Gleneagles promises · No new money for aid and debt
relief. Ewen
MacAskill and Larry Elliott. The Guardian (UK).
September 14, 2005.
Poverty
targets will be missed, UN admits. The Guardian (UK).
September 14, 2005. The UN admitted yesterday for the first
time that its summit of world leaders that begins in New York today
is unlikely to meet the ambitious targets for the organisation's
reform and tackle world poverty.
African Perspectives on
Aid: Foreign Assistance Will Not Pull Africa Out of Poverty.
Thompson Ayodele, Franklin Cudjoe, Temba A. Nolutshungu, and Charles
K. Sunwabe. Cato Institute Economic Development Bulletin No.
2,
September 14, 2005.
Africa: The Development Challenges of the 21st Century.
September
2005. Callisto Madavo, former
Vice President for Africa & Chairman, Africa
Capacity Development Operational Task Force,
World Bank.
Poverty in Africa isn't history -- or destiny.
Emira Woods. Dallas-Fort Worth Star Telegram. July 17,
2005
A
Message to World Leaders: What about the Damage We Do to
Africa? Royal African Society - June
2005
World Development Report 2006: Equity
and Development - World Bank
Human Development
Report 2005 -
UNDP
Freedom
of the Press 2005: A Global Survey of Media Independence. Freedom
House
Freedom
in the World 2005. Freedom House
Doing Business in 2006:
Creating Jobs. World
Bank
Economic Freedom of
the World: 2005 Annual Report. The Fraser
Institute
2005 Index
of Economic Freedom. Heritage
Foundation & Wall Street
Journal
The
World Bank's "Africa Action Plan" (“Meeting the Challenge of
Africa’s Development: A World Bank Group Action Plan”) -- Planning
for the “Decade of Africa”. September
2005
The
World Bank's Africa Capacity Development Operational Task Force
(2005)
World
Bank President Urges Results on Reducing Poverty. World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz today
addressed the United Nations General Assembly at the 2005 World
Summit in New York. September 14, 2005
Africa: Whatever You Thought, Think Again. National
Geographic Special Issue. Sept 2005
World
Bank's Wolfowitz Outlines Africa Action Plan Initiative. Maps New
Image of Africa as Player on Economic, Geopolitical Stage.
September 8 press conference jointly
hosted by the World Bank and National Geographic magazine in
honor of the magazine's special September issue titled Africa:
Whatever You Thought, Think Again.
Africa:
Whatever You Thought, Think Again. Transcript of Proceedings,
National Geographic/World Bank Special Presentation. September 8,
2005
Picture
This: Geographic's Africa Cover. In Rare Move, Magazine Forgoes
Photo on Front. DeNeen L. Brown.
Washington Post. August 18, 2005
Corruption
Takes Two, Wolfowitz Tells Business Leaders. Text of remarks by World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz at the
Corporate Council on Africa's US-Africa Business Summit dinner,
Baltimore, Maryland, USA. June 23, 2005.
". ..And so let's, especially those of us from
so-called the rich countries, developed countries, let's hold a
mirror up to ourselves and remember every corrupt transaction has
two parties. (Applause.) If I can coin a term there is a corruptee
and there is a corruptor. (Laughter, applause.) And if the African
people and their leaders are stepping up to the challenge of dealing
with the corruptees, we, if I can speak as a citizen of a developed
country - those of us in the developed world, in fact anywhere in
the world, have responsibility to address corruptors as well. And to
help African countries, as the Nigerian as seeking to do now, to
recover the some of the stolen wealth that is sitting in bank
accounts where it doesn't belong. (Applause.)
..."
African Perspectives on
Aid: Foreign Assistance Will Not Pull Africa Out of Poverty.
Thompson Ayodele, Franklin Cudjoe, Temba A. Nolutshungu, and Charles
K. Sunwabe. Cato Institute Economic Development Bulletin No. No. 2
September 14, 2005.
Africa's
Development Challenge: From Predatory to Accountable
Government. Robert Guest.
Cato Institute
Economic Development Bulletin No. 1, June 30, 2005. (PDF)
Underdevelopment in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Role of the
Private Sector and Political Elites.
Moeletsi Mbeki, Cato Foreign Policy Analysis no. 85, April 15,
2005.
Africa: A historic
opportunity - G8 Communique on
Africa. 8 July 2005
Our Common Interest: The
Report of the Blair Commission for Africa. 11 March
2005
See also on this
website: The Blair Commission for Africa: Commentaries &
Critiques
Video: Panel
Discussion of Blair Commission for Africa (CfA) Report, by Members:
Ralph Goodale, finance minister of Canada, and K.Y. Amoako,
executive secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa, along
with UK Ambassador to the US, Sir David Manning and CfA policy
director Sir Nick Stern. Q&A. Center for Strategic &
International Studies Event, Washington, DC, April 15,
2005. Includes
question & comment by an ALPN Director & panelists'
responses on funding for civil society capacity building & G8
funding for
MCA-vetted/qualified
African
countries.
5th African Union Summit -- 28 June - 5 July 2005
4th African Union Summit - Jan 2005 - Reports,
Etc.
Africa Economic
Summit.
A call to
action.
World Economic Forum. 1-3 June 2005, Cape Town, South
Africa
Africa Policy Outlook
2005 . Africa
Action (US)
In Nigeria, Where Money Talks, Reform Is the Word.
Craig Timberg.
The Washington
Post. May 01,
2005
A Fragile Success in Africa (Ghana).
Editorial. New York Times.
April 25, 2005. Teetering on the
verge of success, but with failure always threatening to knock at
the door, Ghana has lately taken up the mantle of what passes for a
success story in Africa.
The
Economic Paradox of Ghana's Poverty. Michael M. Weinstein. Financial
Times.
10 November 2003.
The
last thing Ghana needs is more rescuers
(Response to Weinstein). Todd J.
Moss. Financial Times.
15 November 2003.
European
Commission and World Bank Agree To Intensify Partnership to Support
Africa (Press Release). April 18,
2005
African
Countries Show Positive Growth But Region Still Lags Behind Rest Of
The World (Press Release). World Bank.
April 06,
2005
Global
Monitoring Report 2005: Millennium Development Goals: From Consensus
to Momentum. World
Bank/IMF
Sinking Into Africa's 'Poverty Trap'.
Forward. 28 April 2005.
Behind the image:
Poverty and 'development pornography'. Pambazuka News, 21 April
2005.
A Changing Continent: The Africa You Never See. Carol Pineau.
Washington Post. April 17, 2005
Africa Open for Business
Documentary.
View the trailer of Carol Pineau's documentary on
entrepreneurship in Africa. Africa
Open for Business - Documentary
Website.
AFRICA 2005. Corporate Council on
Africa
Scaling Up vs. Absorptive Capacity: Challenges and
Opportunities for reaching the MDGs in Africa. Center for Global
Development. April 14,
2005
Overcoming Stagnation in Aid-Dependent
Countries.
Center for Global Development. March 23, 2005
Poverty Reduction As If Rural People
Mattered.
Center for Global Development. March 03, 2005
Fighting AIDS, TB, and Malaria: Innovations and
Challenges.
February 15, 2005.
Chad-Cameroon: pumping
poverty. Friends of the
Earth. April 2005
Oil Revenues Flow to Chad (Feature
Story). World Bank. April 01,
2005
Chad's Oil: Miracle or Mirage? Following the Money in
Africa's Newest Petro-State. Bank
Information Center. February 2005.
CSOs Examine Chad-Cameroon Pipeline Project and Chad
Budget Process. International Budget
Project
IRI Africa Director Testifies on the Prospects for
Democracy in Zimbabwe, April 21,
2005
Zimbabwe: Popular Uprising Seems an Unlikely Course of Action, by Tafi
Murinzi. Inter Press Service News
Agency, April 9, 2005
Zimbabwe: Elections, despondency and civil society's
responsibility.
Pambazuka News, 07 April
2005
Zimbabwe's Enabler: South Africa Falls Short As Monitor
of Democracy.
Sebastian
Mallaby. Washington
Post.
April 4,
2005.
Observers back Zimbabwe poll. BBC News. April
4, 2005.
Wolfowitz:
Africa is Top Priority for the World Bank: Newshour with Jim Lehrer
Interview - 31 March 2005 (Video, Audio & Transcript).
Jim Lehrer speaks to
Paul Wolfowitz about his confirmation as the next president of the
World Bank.
World Bank names Wolfowitz to post.
Financial
Times. March 31, 2005
Mr. Wolfowitz and the Bank. Editorial. Washington Post. March 31, 2005
Paul Wolfowitz and the World Bank. The Economist. March
31, 2005
The Education of Paul Wolfowitz. Fareed Zakaria. Newsweek. March 28, 2005
World Bank Pragmatism: Wolfowitz's Ideology Fits New
Challenges.
Sebastian Mallaby. Washington Post. March 28, 2005
Africa Will Be First On My List - Wolfowitz.
Business Day (South Africa). March 29,
2005.
‘I have a record of working with people’.
Interview with Paul Wolfowitz. Business Day
(South Africa). 30 March
2005
Nominee to World Bank Top Slot, Bad News for Poor
Africa.
The New Times (Rwanda). March 28, 2005
Wolfowitz sees poverty, graft
and economic growth as World Bank priorities. AFP. March 28, 2005
Practise what you preach,
G-7.
Joseph E. Stiglitz. Business Day (South Africa). March 22, 2005
Why Wolfowitz?
Business Day (South
Africa). March 24, 2005.
Keeping an open mind.
Editorial. Business Day (South
Africa). March 22, 2005
Wolfowitz not the fanatic he is cast
as.
Business
Day (South Africa). March 22, 2005
Neither a scholar nor a
leader.
Business Day (South Africa). March 24, 2005
Wolfowitz at the World Bank. Brett D. Schaefer. Heritage Foundation.
March 22, 2005
World Bank: Wolf at the
door? BBC
News. March 18, 2005
The Ugly American
Bank. Paul Krugman.
New York
Times.
March 18, 2005
More
viewpoints: http://www.worldbankpresident.org/
Easy Ways to Aid Africa. Sebastian Mallaby. Washington Post. March 21, 2005
Transparency
can alleviate poverty. George Soros. Financial Times.
March 16 2005
Africa's turn: The continent's problems are too big for us to
ignore.
Daily News (New York). March 20,
2005
Promises to Keep: With some nudging from activists,
European politicians try to make good on pledges to Africa.
Time,
March 6,
2005.
Africa’s
Opportunity, the World’s Obligation. Op-ed by Gobind Nankani,
World Bank Vice-President for the Sub-Saharan Africa
Region.
Brain
Drain and Capacity Building in
Africa. Ainalem Tebeje.
A
diaspora and its good deeds: by Clyde Sanger
The End of
Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time. Jeffrey
Sachs.
2005
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