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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). www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1940144
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ETC.
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diverse perspectives and insights on: the business,
economic, and financial environments in African
countries; aid; private capital flows; foreign &
domestic investment; trade; etc.
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Africa: A historic opportunity - G8 Communique on
Africa.
8 July 2005
G8 - Business Action for
Africa summit - July 5-6
High-level Dialogue on Financing for Development. United
Nations. 27-28 June 2005
Report of the Secretary-General on "Strengthening the role
of the private sector and entrepreneurship in Financing
for Development"
Africa Economic Summit. A call to action.
1-3 June 2005, Cape Town, South Africa
A Changing Continent: The Africa You Never See. Carol Pineau. Washington Post.
April 17, 2005
Africa Open for Business.
View the trailer of Carol Pineau's
documentary on entrepreneurship in
Africa. AFRICA 2005. Corporate Council on Africa Global Development Finance 2005: Mobilizing Finance and Managing Vulnerability Easy Ways to Aid Africa. Sebastian Mallaby. Washington Post. March 21, 2005
Transparency can alleviate
poverty. George Soros.
Financial Times. March 16 2005
Our
Common Interest: The Report of the Blair Commission
for Africa. 11 March
2005
Commentaries
and critiques: The Blair Commission for Africa:
Commentaries & Critiques
Striving
for Good Governance in Africa -
Synopsis of the
African
Governance Report 2005.
Economic Commission for
Africa
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
G7 Finance Ministers and Central Bank
Governors
Meeting,
London -
February 4-5,
2005
G7 opens door to full debt
relief. February 07,
2005. IAfrica South African
News.
Cancel
Africa's debt, Mandela tells G7
G7 meeting likely to focus on
Africa
Africa
pins hopes on 'Marshall Plan' Africa wants debt relief deal from
G7
US
wants African debt resolved - Brown
Call for 'Marshall Plan' for African
poverty
G7 Nations Pledge Debt Relief for
Africa.
Reuters - Feb 5,
2005
G7
Launches Bid to Wipe Out Poor Nations' Debt.
February 06, 2005
Highlights
- G7 news conference.
Reuters. February
5,
2005.
Statement of G7 Finance Ministers and Central
Bank Governors, London, 4-5 February
2005.
G7
Finance Ministers conclusions on development.
February
5,
2005.
Hoping
for actions, not just words. Digest of Press
Coverage -- World
Bank Press Review, February 4,
2005
Africa
and the G7. The
Economist. February 3, 2005.
World Development Report 2005: A
Better Investment Climate for
Everyone - World
Bank.
A Better
Investment Climate for Everyone. Development
OUTREACH (World Bank). March
2005.
Moving
from Analysis to Action on Investment Climate
Reform.
Online
Discussion. January 2005. World Bank
Group.
How Investment Climate Assessments
Influence Reform. Andrew
Stone. World Bank. November
2004
Doing Business in 2005: Removing
Obstacles to Growth.
World Bank.
September 2004.
World Bank - Doing Business
Website
Governance, Transparency and Private
Investment in Africa. James
J. Emery. International Finance Corporation. OECD-Africa
Investment Roundtable. 19 November
2003
Administrative Barriers to Investment:
Reducing Red Tape in Africa. James Emery and
Melvin Spence. World Bank, Foreign Investment Advisory
Service Occasional Paper No. 14. 2000
Administrative Barriers to Foreign Direct
Investment in Developing Countries. J.
Morisset and O. Lumenageso. World Bank Policy
Research Paper,
2002.
The
Washington Consensus is dead! Long live the
meta-narrative! Simon Maxwell. January 2005.
Overseas Development Institute (UK).
Redrafting
the Reform Agenda. (The "Washington Consensus") Finance
& Development. September 2003: Beyond
the Washington Consensus, Jeremy Clift;
From
Reform Agenda to Damaged Brand Name, John
Williamson (author of the term "Washington Consensus");
Latin
America: Overcoming Reform Fatigue, Guillermo Ortiz (Governor of Mexico's central
bank); Africa:
Finding the Right Path, Trevor A. Manuel
(South
Africa's Minister of Finance).
Burying
the "Washington Consensus". Xavier Cano Tamayo.
February 26,
2003
The
Rush to Regionalism: Sustainable Development and
Regional/Bilateral Approaches to Trade and Investment
Liberalization. Aaron Cosbey, Simon Tay, Hank Lim.
International Institute for
Sustainable Development.
2005.
Debt Relief,
Sustainable Development and Achieving the Millennium
Development Goals in Sub Sahara
Africa. Nguyuru H. I.
Lipumba. Nov 04.
Private Capital Flows to Low-income Countries:
Perception and Reality / Chapter 2 of the Canadian
Development Report 2004. Matthew
Martin with Cleo Rose-Innes.
Private
Capital Flows to Africa: Perception and Reality.
Nils
Bhinda, Jonathan Leape, Matthew Martin, Stephany
Griffith-Jones with Country teams led by Louis
Kasekende, Charles Kimei, Stuart Kufeni and Austin
Matale. FONDAD, The Hague, December
1999
Development
Finance International / Debt Relief International
Publications
Measure
first, then cut.
The Economist.
8
September 2004. A new study shows that bad
regulations are a huge brake on global growth. But
reforming or repealing them is easier than you
think
Conflicts May Rob Africa of FDI in Oil
Sector.
29 June 2004.
This Day (Nigeria). The African region is
taking a step up the ladder of priorities for foreign
direct investment (FDI) especially in oil sector, but
fears are rising that political and ethnic conflict will
hinder progress.
African Union pursues stronger public-private
sector partnership.
29 June 2004.
The
first AU-Private Sector Forum concluded on Sunday in
Addis Ababa. The declaration emanating from the Forum,
which will be presented to AU Heads of State next week
at their annual summit, commended the Commission of the
Africa Union and the
ABR.
Declaration
of the African Union-Private Sector Forum. Addis Ababa, 27 June
2004
37%
of Africa's Wealth is Invested Outside the Continent -
World Bank Specialist. 24 June 2004.
allAfrica.com (Daily Trust,
Nigeria)
Is Africa’s Skepticism of Foreign Capital
Justified? Evidence from East African Firm Survey
Data.
10 June
2004. Todd J. Moss, Vijaya Ramachandran and Manju Kedia
Shah. Center for Global
Development.
Irrational Exuberance or
Financial Foresight? The Political Logic of Stock
Markets in Africa. Todd Moss. Center for Global
Development.
In Sam Mensah
& Todd Moss (eds.), African Emerging Markets:
Contemporary Issues, Volume II, African Capital
Markets Forum, Accra, forthcoming 2004.
The
G8 & Africa -- G8 2004 Meeting, Sea Island (USA) --
Reports &
Commentaries
G8 promises African debt
relief. 11 June
2004. BBC
News
Building a Better
Africa . 9 June 2004. Thabo
Mbeki. The Washington
Post.
DATA
Reacts to G8 Discussion of 100% Debt Relief From
International Financial Institutions.
DATA. 9 June 2004
U.S. Considers Forgiving Poor
Nations' Debts. 9 June 2004. Paul Blustein and Mike
Allen. The Washington
Post.
Bush Backs UK Plan For Debt
Relief.
World Bank Press Review. 8 June
2004.
COMESA Summit calls for African
integration.
9
June 2004
United
We Stand: The Role of Organized Business in
Development. 6 June
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
Note Positive Changes in Africa. Participants hear of
success stories and action plans on closing day of
Africa Economic Summit. 4 June 2004.
World Economic
Forum.
Why Regional Integration Is Not a
Solution to Africa's Underdevelopment. 4 June 2004. allafrica.com
Tearing down the barriers to foreign
investment in Africa .
4 June 2004. Nasreen
Seria. Business Day (South Africa). WEF summit ponders why
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
Review. 3 June 2004. Business Day (South Africa). Rob Rose and Nasreen Seria. Call by
business to rein in errant governments is dismissed by
leaders. African leaders have dismissed calls for the
continent's peer review mechanism to be given additional
muscle to censure errant
governments.
Africa
Competitiveness Report 2004. World Economic Forum.
Press Release: Africa Competitiveness
Report 2004 - Identifying Problems and Offering
Solutions to Africa's Economic
Performance.
Press Release. 2
June 2004. World Economic Forum. Index ranks 25 African
nations on competitiveness.
Africa Economic Summit 2004 : Engaging
Business in Development. Maputo, Mozambique 2-4 June
2004. Press Releases, Session Summaries,
Etc.
What’s Holding Back
Africa’s Growth? World Economic Forum. 03 June
2004
African Leadership for
Tomorrow . World Economic Forum. 03 June
2004
Commission for Africa: "No Place to
Hide" . 03 June
2004. allAfrica.com
WEF Report Says Africa's Growth Was
Worst Economic Tragedy Of 20th Century. World Bank Press Review.
03 June
2004.
Corrupters Should be Punished Too,
Says South African Finance Minister: Companies involved
in corruption should be "named and
shamed". World
Economic Forum. 03 June 2004.
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
for the Earth: Balance, voice, and power. World Resources
Institute.
African
Development Bank Group Annual Meetings 2004 25 - 26 May
2004 Kampala, Uganda
Statement
by Omar Kabbaj, President of the ADB Group at the
Opening Session
ECA Conference of Ministers:
18 - 22 May 2004, Kampala, Uganda - Press
Releases, etc.
Sartorial Snag (AGOA - African Growth
and Opportunity Act).
May 31, 2004. Sebastian Mallaby. The Washington
Post.
Privatisation: APN Targets Africans in
Diaspora . May 28, 2004.
allAfrica.com
Botswana:
Emerging Capital Markets in Africa
Hailed. May 26, 2004. Kabo
Mokgoabone. allAfrica.com
African
Development Report 2004. May 2004. African
Development Bank
Press
Release: African Economies Register Highest Growth in
four Years as World Economy Recovers. 25 May
2004.
African
Development Bank Group Annual Meetings 2004 25 - 26 May
2004 Kampala, Uganda
Statement
by Omar Kabbaj, President of the ADB Group at the
Opening Session
Debt Relief for
the Poorest Countries. 25 May 2004.
DATA (Debt
- AIDS - Trade - Africa). Background on the the Heavily Indebted
Poor Country Initiative (HIPC), progress to date and
recommendations for the future.
AIDS, MCA and
Other Core Accounts. 25 May 2004.
DATA (Debt
- AIDS - Trade - Africa). A summary of key financing requests
from within the President's Foreign Operations request
of $21.3 billion.
Companies 'Shirking' their NEPAD
Obligations. 24 May 2004. Rob
Rose. Business Day (South Africa).
Nigeria:
Obasanjo Woos British Investors. May 19, 2004. Franklin
Alli. allAfrica.com.
Addressing Nigeria's Economic Problems and
the Islamist Terrorist Threat. 19 May 2004. Ariel Cohen and
Brett D. Schaefer. Heritage
Foundation
Governance Redux: The Empirical
Challenge.
2004. D. Kaufmann. [Chapter in Global Competitiveness
Report 2003-2004, World Economic Forum].
Capital Market and Financial Sector Development
in Sub-Saharan Africa. March 2004. Paul V. Applegarth. A Report of the
Africa
Policy Advisory Panel, Center for Strategic and International Studies.
World
Development Report 2005: Improving the Investment
Climate for Growth and Poverty Reduction.
World Bank. Consultative draft: open for comments
May 19 to June 16. Final draft due in
September.
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