[PDF] Africa 2020 2022 eBook

Author : Francis Wiafe-Amoako
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 33,29 MB
Release : 2021-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1475856504

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The World Today Series: Africa provides students with vital information on all countries on the African continent through a thorough and expert overview of political and economic histories, current events, and emerging trends. Each country is examined through the following sections: Basic Facts; Land and People; The Past: Political and Economic History; The Present: Contemporary Issues; and The Future. In addition to country chapters, the book features extended essays on Africa’s Historical Background and the Colonial Period. The combination of factual accuracy and up-to-date detail along with its informed projections make this an outstanding resource for researchers, practitioners in international development, media professionals, government officials, potential investors and students. The content is thorough yet perfect for a one-semester introductory course or general library reference. Available in both print and e-book formats and priced low to fit student and library budgets.

Author : African Union Commission
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 14,52 MB
Release : 2021-01-19
Category :
ISBN : 926460653X

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Africa’s Development Dynamics uses lessons learned in the continent’s five regions – Central, East, North, Southern and West Africa – to develop policy recommendations and share good practices. Drawing on the most recent statistics, this analysis of development dynamics attempts to help African leaders reach the targets of the African Union’s Agenda 2063 at all levels: continental, regional, national and local.

Author : JAVIER CLEMENTE ENGONGA AVOMO
Publisher : DelRei Books & Productions
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 16,33 MB
Release : 2021-10-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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The 21st century is definitely Africa's century, and as the old African saying goes, ''no one should eat what he has earned''. When a continent decides to look ahead, and decides to break with all the prejudices that have been imposed on it with violence, wars and blood, its revolution is certainly expected to be like a nuclear bomb; but in the case of Africa, the evolution of the African continent is like watching an airplane take off or, to be more practical, like launching a rocket straight into the sky. This business intelligence almanac is a guide to better understand the steps being taken on the African continent and, above all, the paths that the future of the richest but at the same time the least developed continent foresees. Technology is a factor that has transformed in recent years some sectors of Africa's economy and industry and at the level of investment attraction, markets have favored the region in recent years before the Covid-19 pandemic crisis. Indeed, in 2019 alone, foreign direct investment to Africa was $47 billion, however, in 2020 the figure declined by 16%. Anything can be expected from the current year 2021 but the numbers just keep going down. It may be that the focus on the terms of wealth generation on the African continent is not the most effective, since it is, as we know, a very rich continent, because there are precisely several factors that condition the generation of wealth in Africa in an orderly and systematic manner. Rather, the Almanac presents a focus on the possibilities and opportunities, the factors and actors that will promote the region's growth in 2022. E-commerce will be the big player across the continent, with more and more countries embracing the revolution started in China by Jack Ma and Alibaba at the beginning of this century. E-commerce will break down all the barriers imposed by the division of Africa into borders and countries, and the true power and potential of the continent will begin to become evident. It will also be a year of great political changes and many countries will make decisive decisions for their own future, independence and prosperity. This is BUSINESS FROM AFRICA, Business Intelligence Almanac. Thank you for reading these lines.

Author : Giovanni Carbone
Publisher : Ledizioni
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 14,44 MB
Release : 2021-11-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8855265946

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A year and a half after the new Strategy with Africa proposed by the European Commission was made public, the new partnership between the two continents is still being defined. The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic with Africa’s first economic recession in 25 years and a sharp rise in poverty and debt has created new challenges for the two continents’ agenda, highlighting new gaps to address on the way forward.With the European Union-African Union summit scheduled for February 2022, the definition of the new partnership is once again gathering momentum, while both sides are still trying to define common positions. Will these two “natural partners” be able to tackle the most urgent challenges and turn them into opportunities for collaboration and engagement? What are the priority issues, and which ones are potentially most divisive?

Author : United Nations. Economic Commission for Africa
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,76 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Africa
ISBN : 9789210603928

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The 2017 Economic Report on Africa focuses on the linkages between industrialization and urbanization. Urbanization is one of Africa mega trends with profound implications for the social, economic, environmental dimensions of growth and transformation. Theory and experience demonstrate that industrialization and urbanization can be mutually reinforcing processes. It is therefore imperative to explore the linkages between urbanization and industrialization given the profound implications for structural transformation in Africa. So far, current policy narratives and frameworks on structural transformation and industrialization in Africa have largely failed to factor in the spatial and urban dimensions of industrialization, and in particular the advantages presented by productivity enhancement and agglomeration effects generated by cities. Yet, the nexus between urbanization and industrialization is of particular relevance for Agenda 2063 and the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development. Both agendas recognize urbanization as a critical factor for sustainable development. It is also important to consider urbanization and industrialization in light of Africa's engagement with the Third United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III) to be held in Quito, Ecuador in October 2016. In this context, African policy makers have clearly recognized urbanization as an engine of structural transformation for inclusive and sustainable growth.

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Publisher : BRILL
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 22,80 MB
Release : 2021-10-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9004498915

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This is the first edition of the Yearbook on the African Union. It is first and foremost an academic project that will provide an in-depth evaluation and analysis of the institution, its processes, and its engagements. Despite the increased agency in recent years of the African Union in general, and the AU Commission in particular, little is known – outside expert policy or niche academic circles – about the Union’s activities. This is the gap the Yearbook on the African Union wants to systematically bridge. It seeks to be a reference point for in-depth research, evidence-based policy-making and decision-making. Contributors are: Adekeye Adebajo, Habibu Yaya Bappah, Bruce Byiers, Annie Barbara Hazviyemurwi Chikwanha, Dawit Yohannes Wondemagegnehu, Katharina P.W. Döring, Jens Herpolsheimer, Jacob Lisakafu, Frank Mattheis, Henning Melber, Alphonse Muleefu, John N. Nkengasong, Edefe Ojomo, Awino Okech, Jamie Pring, Elizabeth Sidiropoulos, Tim Zajontz.

Author : Leslie Bank
Publisher : Hurst Publishers
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 12,58 MB
Release : 2022-06-09
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1787388727

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This book explores the impact of Covid-19, and the associated state lockdown, on rural lives in a former homeland in South Africa. The 2020 Disaster Management Act saw the state sweep through rural areas, targeting funerals and other customary practices as potential ‘super-spreader’ events. This unprecedented clampdown produced widespread disruption, fear and anxiety. The authors build on path-breaking work concerning local responses to West Africa’s Ebola epidemic, and examine the HIV/AIDS pandemic, to understand the impact of the Covid crisis on these communities, and on rural Africa more broadly. To shed light on the role of custom and ritual in rural social change during the pandemic, Covid and Custom in Rural South Africa applies long-term historical and ethnographic research; theories of people’s science, local knowledge and the human economy; and fieldwork conducted in ten rural South African communities during lockdown. The volume highlights differences between developments in Southern Africa and elsewhere on the continent, while exploring how the former apartheid homelands–commonly, yet problematically, represented as former ‘labour reserves’–have since been reconstituted as new home-spaces. In short, it explains why rural people have been so angered by the state’s assault on their cultural practices and institutions in the time of Covid.

Author : Asli Demirguc-Kunt
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,76 MB
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1464812683

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In 2011 the World Bank—with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation—launched the Global Findex database, the world's most comprehensive data set on how adults save, borrow, make payments, and manage risk. Drawing on survey data collected in collaboration with Gallup, Inc., the Global Findex database covers more than 140 economies around the world. The initial survey round was followed by a second one in 2014 and by a third in 2017. Compiled using nationally representative surveys of more than 150,000 adults age 15 and above in over 140 economies, The Global Findex Database 2017: Measuring Financial Inclusion and the Fintech Revolution includes updated indicators on access to and use of formal and informal financial services. It has additional data on the use of financial technology (or fintech), including the use of mobile phones and the Internet to conduct financial transactions. The data reveal opportunities to expand access to financial services among people who do not have an account—the unbanked—as well as to promote greater use of digital financial services among those who do have an account. The Global Findex database has become a mainstay of global efforts to promote financial inclusion. In addition to being widely cited by scholars and development practitioners, Global Findex data are used to track progress toward the World Bank goal of Universal Financial Access by 2020 and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The database, the full text of the report, and the underlying country-level data for all figures—along with the questionnaire, the survey methodology, and other relevant materials—are available at www.worldbank.org/globalfindex.

Author : Clemens Greiner
Publisher : Africa-Europe Group for Interd
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 20,40 MB
Release : 2022
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789004470811

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"The essays in this collection are written to make readers (re)consider what is possible in Africa. The essays shake the tree of received wisdom and received categories, and hone in on the complexities of life under ecological and economic constraints. Yet, throughout this volume, people do not emerge as victims, but rather as inventors, engineers, scientists, planners, writers, artists, and activists, or as children, mothers, fathers, friends, or lovers - all as future-makers. It is precisely through agents such as these that Africa is futuring: rethinking, living, confronting, imagining, and relating in the light of its many emerging tomorrows"--