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Chocolate-Fueled GrowthVIENNA – As an African, my dream for the next decade is to see the continent producing and selling chocolate to 300 million Chinese, instead of exporting raw commodities like cocoa.
Can the continent break the North-South commodity-based pattern of trade, and inaugurate a pattern of South-North-South triangular trade based on higher-value products?
Germany’s Five ShocksOver the last decade, Germany has been the slowest growing economy in the European Union, and Europe has been the slowest growing continent in the world.
The world needs a united continent, ready to go into action.
The rise of Europe’s populist parties is exerting similar pressure across the continent.
Europeans are experiencing an unprecedented period of peace and prosperity; their integration model has now spread to include most of the continent.
For example, harmonizing insolvency regimes across the continent and reducing tax incentives that favor debt over equity, while entirely logical, strike at the heart of member states' remaining sovereignty, and thus will be extremely difficult to push forward.
Security forces throughout the continent subsequently opened their doors to the US Federal Bureau of Investigation and Central Intelligence Agency.
Above all, if Africa is to escape the crossfire of international terrorism, the trend towards establishing US military bases on the continent must be stopped.
Regarded as the sick man of Europe as recently as 1999, today the country boasts the continent's strongest economy, accounting for roughly a quarter of its exports.
During a trip to the continent last week, I heard one that captures very well the key dynamic in Europe today.
Average external debt on the continent has fallen from 63% of GDP in 2000 to 22.2% this year, while average inflation now stands at 8%, down from 15% in 2000.
Unlike the Arab countries, Eastern Europe and the Balkans benefited from a common starting point and a common path forward: all are part of a continent that has taken historic steps toward integration since World War II.
In 2016, some 417,000 people on the continent succumbed to the disease.
Both interventions incited a massive surge in anti-Russian sentiment across the continent.
Europe’s retained wealth and accrued cultural resources will allow the old continent to live in relative comfort in the decades ahead, even if it gradually cedes its position in the production of goods and services.
(Likewise, Africa’s growth performance has improved spectacularly since the turn of the century, but variance within the continent is even larger than elsewhere.)
Nonetheless, in terms of the likely strength of the convergence process that globalization has facilitated, it is important to distinguish between Latin America and Asia, and, within Asia, to distinguish China from the rest of the continent.
Experts predict that the continent will experience some of the gravest changes, whereas the capacity of African societies to respond to them is among the weakest in the world.
Because of its vast natural heritage, the continent contains some of the most potent solutions to climate change.
Churchill’s famous adage that democracy is the worst political system, with the exception of all the others, has been borne out across the continent.
If the continent is to make gains in achieving universal health coverage (UHC) and improving the quality of health care for everyone, it must start by ensuring that resources are used efficiently and fairly.
From 2010 to 2015, as part of the global Millennium Development Goals, the continent reduced the malaria incidence rate (the number of new infections) by 21% and malaria deaths by 31%.
These tools are versatile and adaptable throughout the continent.
Together, Africa’s governments and private sector can produce the investment and action needed to stop the disease for good – and ensure greater prosperity across the continent.
Later, corporate governance scandals in Asia and then in the US, notably after the dot-com bubble and the accounting debacles at Enron, WorldCom, and others, encouraged Europeans to think that the “old continent” had somehow preserved higher standards.
On a continent where mineral wealth too often has become a curse, Botswana, under the leadership of President Festus Gontebanye Mogae, has demonstrated how natural resources can promote sustainable development and good governance.
Above all, Americans see Europe as a continent of self-inflicted stagnation - and with good reason.
"We are not even ready to forcefully meet conflicts on our own continent," Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski sighed.
Optimists imagine a scenario in which production is rationalized, pipelines are built, grids are interconnected, and gas from Bolivia, Argentina, or elsewhere fuels growth throughout the continent, benefiting everyone in the process.
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