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. 9 June 2004. Thabo
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DATA
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U.S. Considers Forgiving Poor
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Bush Backs UK Plan For Debt
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World Bank Press Review. 8 June
2004.
COMESA Summit calls for African
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9
June 2004
United
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2004. Africa Economic
Summit participants consider how best to support
organized business in influencing the regulatory
environment and best practices for public-private
partnerships in Africa.
Chissano Urges World to
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success stories and action plans on closing day of
Africa Economic Summit. 4 June 2004.
World Economic
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Why Regional Integration Is Not a
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Tearing down the barriers to foreign
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.
4 June 2004. Nasreen
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African countries feature near the bottom of the
rankings on global
competitiveness.
Rating Plan Will Act As
Sanction
. 04 June 2004. Nasreen Seria. Business Day (South Africa). Business leaders said
yesterday that a proposed rating system for African
countries would act as a sanction for errant nations.
This would force countries to toe the line in the
absence of a formalized system under the New Partnership
for African Development...
Enterprise in Africa will thrive when
tangle of red tape is cut
. 4 Jun 2004.
Business Day (South
Africa)
Project funding will
'snowball' - Erwin. 3 June
2004. Nasreen Seria.
Business Day (South Africa). SA Public Enterprises
Minister Alec Erwin was optimistic yesterday that the
private sector's investment in infrastructure projects
in Africa would "snowball" in coming
years.
African 'No' to Stronger Peer
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business to rein in errant governments is dismissed by
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continent's peer review mechanism to be given additional
muscle to censure errant
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Africa
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What’s Holding Back
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2004
African Leadership for
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. World Economic Forum. 03 June
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Commission for Africa: "No Place to
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WEF Report Says Africa's Growth Was
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Corrupters Should be Punished Too,
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Aspirations Over Africa's Future:
African leaders at Africa Economic Summit 2004 express
hopes for continent's future. World Economic Forum. 03 June 2004.
World Resources 2002-2004: Decisions
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African
Development Bank Group Annual Meetings 2004 25 - 26 May
2004 Kampala, Uganda
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Sartorial Snag (AGOA - African Growth
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May 31, 2004. Sebastian Mallaby. The Washington
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Privatisation: APN Targets Africans in
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four Years as World Economy Recovers. 25 May
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DATA (Debt
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Poor Country Initiative (HIPC), progress to date and
recommendations for the future.
AIDS, MCA and
Other Core Accounts. 25 May 2004.
DATA (Debt
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from within the President's Foreign Operations request
of $21.3 billion.
Companies 'Shirking' their NEPAD
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Nigeria:
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Alli. allAfrica.com.
Addressing Nigeria's Economic Problems and
the Islamist Terrorist Threat. 19 May 2004. Ariel Cohen and
Brett D. Schaefer. Heritage
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World
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benefits of trade for development, the Executive
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text of his speech Issue paper
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to Discuss Trade Policy and Development Agenda in
Africa.
African ministers of Finance, Planning and
Economic Development will meet in Kampala, Uganda, May
21-22, to discuss how best to maximize the contribution
of trade to national economic growth and the obstacles
to Africa's participation in global trade.
Economic Report on
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UN
Economic Commission for Africa
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In Diaspora Critical To FDI. 11 May
2004. Economic experts, private sector leaders and
others who converged at the Pan-African
University, Lekki, Lagos, recently, concurred
that Nigerians in the diaspora are a critical
factor in the federal
government's efforts
towards seeking foreign direct investments
(FDI) into the country.
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07
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. May 06
2004. The Millennium Challenge Corporation
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MCC/MCA
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rich-country protectionism in textiles and clothing
trade prevents poverty
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Development Policy Management Forum
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Bank and Fund Plan Debt Sustainability
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Commitment to Development Index Rankings: Defining
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Development and FOREIGN POLICY
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the Rich 2004. Center for Global
Development and FOREIGN POLICY
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annual CGD/FP Commitment to Development Index
ranks 21 rich nations on how their policies—from aid and
trade to environment and security—help or hinder
progress among the world's poor countries.
Delivering
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UN
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US Dept of State - Top US Aid
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Carving
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Alan M.
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29 March 2004.
AGOA
III: The United States Africa Partnership Act of
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Senate
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Passage of an expanded African Growth and Opportunity
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Congress before September 30, recently said Senator Dick
Lugar, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations
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A
Fair Globalization - Creating Opportunities for
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2004. Report of the World Commission on the Social Dimension of
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International Labour Organization
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Rights-based development and the role of
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FEDERE conference on Corporate Social Responsibility and
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Corporate
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24 March 2004. Tamela Hultman.
PanAfrica:
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15 March 2004.
Micro-Finance and ICTs: Exploring
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.
EM Wires,
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African
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Charles W.
Corey. US State Department, Washington
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United
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10 March 2004. Alan Larson, Under Secretary for
Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs, US
State Department. Testimony before the Senate
Finance Committee, Washington,
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FC
Outlook on Morocco Revised to Positive; 'BB/B' FC
Ratings Affirmed.
08 March 2004.
Standard & Poor's.
Burkina
Faso Rated 'B/B' With Stable Outlook. 05 March 2004.
Standard & Poor's.
B-SPAN
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Botchwey
. 05 March 2004. The World Bank.
In this interview, Kwesi Botchwey, Executive
Chairman of the African Development Policy Ownership
Initiative, described his perspectives on development,
Africa, and the World Bank.
Plunder
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Moberg
. In These Times. The IMF and World
Bank continue to push privatization, in spite of its
massive failures
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Overview. 02
March 2004. Testimony of Constance B. Newman, Assistant
Administrator for Africa, U.S. Agency for International
Development, before the Committee on Foreign Relations,
United States Senate.
US Trade
Policy - 2004 Agenda & 2003 Annual Report.
01 March 2004.
Robert B. Zoellick. United States Trade
Representative
Domestic
Debt Markets in Sub-Saharan
Africa
. March
2004. Jakob E. Christensen. International Monetary
Fund.
NEPAD Business Update.
01 March 2004
World
Bank and Donors Must Change to Reach MDGs.
01 March 2004.
Jeff Sachs (UN Special Advisor). For developing
countries to achieve the MDGs, the World Bank must
better represent them before the donor
community.
Debt-for-AIDS Swaps
. UNAIDS Policy Information Brief.
February 2004.
Economic Development in Africa: Trade
Performance and Commodity Dependence - UNCTAD.
February
2004.
Economic Freedom of the World: 2003 Annual
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. Economic Freedom
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Burkina Faso Rated 'B/B' With Stable Outlook;
100th Sovereign Rating Worldwide. Standard & Poor's. 05 March
2004
The
WTO and the Poorest Countries: The Stark Choices.
March 2004. Aaditya Mattoo and Arvind Subramanian. World
Bank/IMF
NEPAD Business
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01
March 2004
Unleashing Entrepreneurship: Making Business
Work for the Poor. UNDP, 01
March 2004
eAfrica - February
2004
Enough Promises, Africa Needs To Set
Priorities
A
Business Vision for Africa
The
Surveys Behind "A Business Vision for
Africa"
Portraits
of Graft In the Moi Era
Africa’s
Top Priorities: What The Surveys Say
Growth
Priorities for Nepad
Freeing
Business From A Tangle of Red Tape
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Development, Senior UN Official Tells New York Business
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26 February 2004
UN development official calls for
expanding credit ratings in Africa to boost
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February 2004
Press Release - Blair Launches Commission for
Africa. 26 February 2004. Department for
International Development, UK
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commission.
BBC News, 27 February 2004. Tony Blair is to set up a commission
for Africa which will look at ways to resolve the
continent's major problems.
ECA Press
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Rhetoric to Action'. 04 March
2004.
ECA's Executive Secretary, K.Y. Amoako, believes
the new Commission for Africa launched by British Prime
Minister Tony Blair offers an opportunity to move from
rhetoric to action.
US
House of Representatives Hearing: U.S. Foreign
Assistance After September 11th: Major Changes,
Competing Purposes and Different Standards—Is There an
Overall Strategy? February 26, 2004. Transcripts: Hearing
Notice, Hon.
Henry J. Hyde, Ms.
Mary McClymont, Patrick
Cronin, Ph.D., Lael
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Privatisation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Where Do
We Stand? 24-Feb-2004.
Jean-Claude Berthélemy, Céline Kauffmann, Marie-Anne
Valfort, Lucia Wegner. OECD. This study
spotlights the progress made in the region’s
privatisation effort over the last
decade.
World
Bank hears how to accelerate Africa's
development.
24 February 2004. NEPAD Business Group.
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Africa's development? This question was raised -
and answered -by Prof. Wiseman Nkuhlu, Chairman of the
NEPAD Steering Committee, at a meeting of the World Bank
Executive Directors, Africa, in Washington on 19
February 2004.
Strict New Rights Test for Africa's
Revival Bid. Jonathan
Katzenellenbogen. Business
Day
(South Africa), 18
February 2004. Seventeen leaders sign new bid to instil good
governance on continent. African leaders meeting in
Kigali, Rwanda, at the weekend claimed a breakthrough in
their long-stated goal of submitting their nations'
governance and human rights records to
review.
Can Peer Review Work in
Africa?.
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African leaders now have a new mechanism for
monitoring each other's progress towards political and
economic reform but can it
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Governance and Development in Africa: A Critical
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2004.
The Impact of HIV/AIDS on Growth and Poverty
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Development Studies Centre, Dublin, Ireland, 03 February
2004.
Policy Reform and Foreign Direct
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Reducing Global Poverty: Engaging the Global
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2003. Committee for Economic
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Africa's
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Dianna Games. Business Day (South Africa)
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Oct 29 2003. Sello Motseta. Business Day (South Africa)
Rival NEPAD business groups edge
closer. Dec 10 2003. Jonathan
Katzenellenbogen. Business Day (South Africa)
Making NEPAD Africa's Marshall
Plan. Dec 04 2003. Kuseni Dlamini. Business Day (South
Africa)
Africa Investment Roundtable: Actions
for a Positive Investment Environment in Africa to
Promote Development. 19 November 2003. OECD-NEPAD
Statement (Africa Investment Roundtable: OECD, NEPAD,
World Bank and African Development
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Regional Integration, FDI, and
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Johannesburg, South Africa.
The Economic Paradox of Ghana's
Poverty. Michael M. Weinstein.
Financial Times, November 10,
2003.
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2003
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Fiscal
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September
2003. Annalisa Fedelino and Alina Kudina.
International Monetary Fund. The link between fiscal
policy and debt sustainability in a number of African
countries participating in the Highly Indebted Poor
Countries (HIPC) initiative.
Finance
& Development
(Special Focus: "Redrafting the Reform Agenda"),
September 2003. IMF/World
Bank.
Challenges and Prospects of e-Commerce
in Africa: The need for strategic alliances and
collaboration
. Fall 2003. Chimera. Alice P. Shemi and
Beatrice A. S. Magembe.
Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights
(TRIPS) and African
Development
. Charles D. Jebuni, Centre for Policy Analysis,
Ghana. August 2003.
Special Reports: USA-Africa:
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NEPAD-MCA on Collision Course? African Business. 2003. Interview, Stephen Hayes,
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Foreign Investment on Africa's Agenda: NEPAD
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Development. July 2003
Analysis of Bush's Trip to
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. Susan E. Rice.
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July 2003. Brookings Institution.
The Surprise Party: An Analysis of US
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Center for Global Development
The
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Global
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USAID
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Boosting Africa’s Agricultural
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International Relations, US House of Representatives. 24
June 2003.
Governing Nigeria: Continuing Issues After
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The
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Secretary Colin L. Powell’s Keynote Address
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Economic Freedom: The Path to African
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Africa: Promoting Economic Development and
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2003 Comprehensive Report
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Office of the US Trade
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Global Competitiveness and Regional Market
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2003
Botswana President Says Peace,
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Stock Exchanges Attractive For Investors, Experts Tell
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Dar
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2003
Governance:
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Privatization in Africa: What Has Happened? What
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Adventure Capitalism:
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Fighting Corruption in Sub-Saharan Africa—Can
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Challenges to
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Developing
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FDI
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Foreign Direct Investment in Southern
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Attracting Foreign Private Capital to
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