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Time for Measured Optimism on Africa
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Length:
32 minutes
Released:
Jun 20, 2014
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Over the past decade, sub-Saharan African economies have grown 5 percent a year, and the region’s economy should double by 2030. Yet this growth is not enough to spread needed development and progress throughout the region. Amadou Sy, a senior fellow with the Africa Growth Initiative at Brookings, talks about the role of foreign direct investment, priorities for African policymakers, and the prospect for conflict resolution in the most troubled areas.
Show notes:
• Four Instruments to Strengthen Financial Integration in Sub-Saharan Africa• Shifts in Financing Sustainable Development: How Should Africa Adapt in 2014 (pdf)• Six Questions on the Crisis in the Central African Republic• Event on Peace and Stability in the Central African Republic• Africa in China's Foreign Policy• Africa in Focus (blog)
Show notes:
• Four Instruments to Strengthen Financial Integration in Sub-Saharan Africa• Shifts in Financing Sustainable Development: How Should Africa Adapt in 2014 (pdf)• Six Questions on the Crisis in the Central African Republic• Event on Peace and Stability in the Central African Republic• Africa in China's Foreign Policy• Africa in Focus (blog)
Released:
Jun 20, 2014
Format:
Podcast episode
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