Executive Secretary's Corner
The outbreak of the Ebola virus in 2014 fully demonstrated that, despite the significant progress it has made over the past two decades with the support of the African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF)
Africa’s future lies in its ability to generate its own finance to develop the infrastructure needed to eradicate poverty and promote economic transformation.
The 2014 annual summit of the Group of 20 developed and emerging economies comes up from Nov. 15 to Nov. 16 in Australia.
The African Capacity Building Foundation joined top African business leaders at a roundtable to establish an emergency fund to help countries hit by the Ebola outbreak in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on November 8, 2014.
The African expectations could be broken down into six proposals that would enable the US partner the continent to achieve a robust economic growth and development presumably well in advance of 2063.
The renowned economist is the executive secretary of the African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF), a Pan-African organisation based in Harare with regional offices in Nairobi, Addis Ababa and Accra.
In recent years Africa has been making great strides in policy development and at present looks very prepared to move from principle into practice on this. Some leaders say now is the time to boost Africa's industrialization efforts
Emerging trends show that recently the BRICS group has become a major force in the global economic arena. The OECD predicts that the balance of economic power is expected to shift dramatically over the next fifty years with China becoming the world’s largest economy (replacing the United States). India’s GDP growth is also projected to outpace that of the United States. Thus partnerships with BRICS countries will become even more important over time.
