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World Economic Forum on Africa: Delivering Africa’s Promise

May 6, 2013, Mwangi S. Kimenyi

Africa Answers: Five Questions for Lawrence Bategeka about Uganda’s New Oil Law

May 1, 2013, Anne W. Kamau and Andrew Westbury

Creating Jobs Where Institutions Matter: Addressing South Africa’s Unemployment Problem

April 26, 2013, Anne W. Kamau and Andrew Westbury

Is Africa Rising or Not? A Discussion of Economic Opportunities and Development Challenges in Africa

April 25, 2013

Africa Answers: Five Questions about Sustainable Inclusive Growth in South Africa

April 23, 2013, Julius Agbor

Inequality and Inclusive Growth in Africa: A Conversation with South African Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan

April 17, 2013

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From Bottom Billion to Top Trillion: Using Commodity-Backed Securities to Support the Future of Africa’s Resource Economies

April 17, 2013, Vera Songwe

Youth Policy and the Future of African Development

April 15, 2013, Kwabena Gyimah-Brempong and Mwangi S. Kimenyi

[Kenya's] economy has changed a lot, but we still have a traditional sector that has not changed a lot and that traditional sector is where, I think, [President Uhuru Kenyatta] and his deputy are going to concentrate.

April 10, 2013, Mwangi S. Kimenyi, Al Jazeera English

What Future for the Central African Republic?

April 6, 2013, Julius Agbor and Michael Rettig

China’s Increasing Interest in Africa: Benign but Hardly Altruistic

April 5, 2013, Yun Sun

Priorities for International Trade: A Conversation with Special Adviser to the Secretary-General Amina Mohammed

April 4, 2013

Africa Answers: Perspectives on President Obama’s Meeting with African Leaders

April 3, 2013, Julius Agbor

Top Five Reasons Why Africa Should Be a Priority for the United States

April 2013

U.S. Development Assistance and Sub-Saharan Africa: Opportunities for Engagement

April 2013, George Ingram and Steven Rocker

Transforming the U.S.-Africa Commercial Relationship

April 2013, Witney Schneidman

Key Sub-Saharan Energy Trends and their Importance for the U.S.

April 2013, John P. Banks

China in Africa: Implications for U.S. Competition and Diplomacy

April 2013, Yun Sun

Advancing Peace and Security in Africa

April 3, 2013, Lesley Anne Warner

Unemployment Insurance in South Africa: A Descriptive Overview of Claimants and Claims

April 2013, Haroon Bhorat, Sumayya Goga and David Tseng

Kenya: A Country Redeemed after a Peaceful Election

April 2, 2013, Mwangi S. Kimenyi

Economic Growth in Senegal and Regional Stability in West Africa: A Conversation with His Excellency President of Senegal Macky Sall

March 29, 2013

[China is] also investing quite a bit in manufacturing. It’s also investing in construction. So one of the good things about Chinese engagement with Africa has been infrastructure development.

March 28, 2013, Mwangi S. Kimenyi, Marketplace

Such [White House] meetings [with President Obama] have served to reward those countries that have made advances in the cause of democracy and human rights.

March 28, 2013, Mwangi S. Kimenyi, Bloomberg Businessweek

BRICS Investing in Africa: Geopolitical and Economic Ramifications

March 28, 2013