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Behind the times: Washington's slow changing attitude to Africa

Africa’s international relationships are increasingly hinged on trade and investment rather than strategic security and aid, but attitudes in Washington are slow to change

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Accelerating value addition

Africa has great potential to climb many value chains and create thousands of new jobs. It is time to test a new approach to realising this potential.

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Small Can Be Beautiful: Overcoming Market Failures for Smallholders in Africa South of the Sahara

The unique challenges faced by smallholder farmers call for an innovative, integrated approach to spur investment, productivity, and technology adoption.

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Rise of the African Sovereign Wealth Fund

Africa's major oil producers wade into the global SWF game, with ambitious plans to boost domestic growth.

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Interview: Ángel Gurría

This Is Africa speaks exclusively with the OECD Secretary-General

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Legal roundup: December / January

Drawing on the latest legal and regulatory developments, This is Africa presents investment-related intelligence covering business reforms and legal news on the continent

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Food price spikes and the poor

A review the type of policies and mechanisms that poor, net food-importing countries might use to overcome food security challenges in periods of high prices.

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Interview: Rupert Soames

Rupert Soames, CEO of temporary power provider Aggreko, outlines Africa's power sector deficit and what should be done about it

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East African oil: Hard going

Regulatory uncertainty around the buying, selling and development of oil assets is impacting independent and small scale oil companies in East Africa

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Legal Roundup - Oct/Nov

Drawing on the latest legal and regulatory developments, This is Africa presents investment-related intelligence covering business reforms and legal news on the continent. 

Sourcing tomorrows supplies  - SABMiller looks to smallholders

This is Africa speaks to Andy Wales, Senior Vice President at SABMiller, on the company's outreach efforts in Africa. 

Special Report: Agriculture Smallholder value chains

Download the special report: 

AGRICULTURE
Smallholder value chains

Content includes:

PRIVATE SECTOR
Commercialising smallholder production
POLICY
Enabling environment is key to growth
COMMENT
Andris Piebalgs, Michael Hailu,Ram Bhavani and Khalid Bomba

 

Transforming Value Chains

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Access+: A focus on education in Africa

This Is Africa takes an in-depth look at the state of education in Africa

Visit our Access+ page for:

  • Learning Barometer - the first region-wide assessment of the state of education in 28 African countries 
  • Video interviews with key figures discussing with the post-Millennium Development Goals outlook

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