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It should be playing a much more active role both in meeting Africa’s demand for imports and in stimulating industrial and agricultural development across the continent.
As the Indian poet and Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore put it in his 1936 poem “Ode to Africa,” which played on perceptions about who is “civilized,” the continent fell prey to “civilization’s barbaric greed,” as the colonists “arrived, manacles in hand/Claws sharper by far than any of your wolves.”
The AfDB report estimates that, for infrastructure investment alone, the continent needs some $170 billion per year, which is $100 billion more than is currently available.
Expansion of NATO, if not seconded by the emergence of a robust pan-European security system would make Russia an outcast from the Continent's security architecture.
As the European Union, despite all its difficulties, embodies the Continent's future, Russia must be integrated with it so that Europe's future will be about trade, capital and technological flows, not defense and security.
The CFTA – one of 12 flagship programs under the African Union’s (AU) Agenda 2063 framework – could double intra-African trade and bring enormous benefits to the continent.
In their recent book The Unexplored Potential of Trade in Services in Africa, Nora Dihel and Arti Grover Goswani of the World Bank marshal data to show that services have the potential to provide much-needed employment and incomes for ordinary people across the continent.
The transformation of grasslands into deserts due to deforestation, encroachment into forests for subsistence farming, overgrazing, and loss of biodiversity and soil threaten the entire continent.
The continent shuts down on the assumption that nothing of consequence will happen until everyone returns, suitably tanned, in September.
Between 1800 and 1950 Europe's population increased by 269%, from 203 million to 547 million, as the continent experienced extraordinary economic change, social upheaval, and political turmoil.
Emigration from Europe was the continent's critical safety valve, without which the pressure placed on populations and states would have been unsustainable.
This week, the AGRF – one of the world’s most important platforms for African agriculture – will gather for its annual meeting to discuss ways to help the continent feed itself.
Today, governments across the continent, including in Rwanda, this year’s host country, have placed agriculture at the center of their socioeconomic policies.
Moreover, the ideological extremes that excited and polarized the continent back then are hardly in vogue today.
Only a solution that balances the two will guarantee the long-term growth of both peripheral and core eurozone economies, reassuring debt markets of their solvency and stemming the contagion that threatens to sweep the continent.
The very existence of our Union, and particularly of the euro, has already helped to prevent the competitive devaluations and beggar-thy-neighbor policies that ravaged Europe during the 1930’s – the last time the continent faced so brutal an economic downturn.
Make no mistake: China’s territorial creep is contributing to Asian insecurity, fueling political tension, and turning the world’s economically most vibrant continent into a potentially global hot spot.
In the current circumstances, with much of Europe lacking competitiveness, a weaker exchange rate is precisely what the continent needs.
The false hopes raised by cutting taxes would have diverted policy makers away from fundamental reforms that are necessary if the Continent is to achieve the dynamism on which high rates of innovation, abundant job creation, and world-class productivity depend.
It depends on whether a people close themselves off in hope that the various winds of this world will pass them by; or, whether a nation takes the opposite tack and conducts itself as true inhabitants of this continent and of this planet, that is, as people engaged with the world and who assume their share of responsibility for it.
Under Chancellor Helmut Kohl, it gave up its beloved Deutsche Mark for the sake of deepening European integration, but also to sooth French fears that Germany was poised to establish monetary hegemony over the continent.
The UK has every interest in ending the crisis and preserving a strong euro, just as Europeans on the continent need the British inside the EU.
Food production in Africa is currently so underfunded and excluded from financial services that the continent imports $35 billion worth of food products every year.
Finally, the G20 must help close Africa’s energy-financing gap – estimated at $55 billion per year through 2030 – and support renewable-energy production on the continent.
While conflict and poverty remain serious problems in many African regions, our continent is not only more stable than ever before; it is also experiencing some of the highest economic growth rates anywhere on the planet.
Too often, Africa’s economies exchange goods and coordinate policy among themselves less than they do with countries outside of the continent.
Africa at RiskADDIS ABABA – Climate change will hit Africa – a continent that has contributed virtually nothing to bring it about – first and hardest.
Aside from Antarctica, Africa is the only continent that has not industrialized.
All estimates of the possible impact of global warming suggest that a large part of the continent will become drier, and that the continent as a whole will experience greater climatic variability.
In particular, the way Europe, in the process of its enlargement, has projected its power to achieve lasting peace across the whole continent, and fostered development by integrating entire economies, states, and societies within its institutional framework, could become a model for shaping a cooperative world order in the twenty-first century.
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