By: Prof. Torbjörn Fagerström, Dr. Roy B. Mugiira and Prof. Lisa Sennerby Forsse a) Värtavägen 39, SE 115 29 Stockholm, Sweden, b) Directorate of Research Management and Development, State Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, Nairobi, Republic of Kenya, c) Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Box 7070, Uppsala, S-750 07 Sweden.
By Ms. Jully Senteu and Joel Onyango
Heaps of garbage and polybags scattered as far as the eye can see are regrettably a common sight in most urban and peri-urban centers across the country. It is disheartening, when you drive across a centre made up of less than a dozen shops yet there is so much plastic littered all over, you can barely spot a patch of green – or brown.
By Dr. Sajitha Bashir, World Bank
The scale of China’s engagement in Sub-Saharan Africa is impressive and is expected to grow substantially if future projections of Chinese investments materialize. By 2013, China accounted for a quarter of all SSA trade.
Think Mobility
By Prof. L Alan Winters - Professor of Economics, University of Sussex, also of CEPR, IZA and GDN
Mobility would seem to be the very essence of trade: if things don’t move, there is no trade. This is true, and it informs the parts of this article that talk about efforts to reduce the costs of doing international trade, including trade facilitation and aid for trade.
By Dr. Cosmas Ochieng, former Executive Director, ACTS
Abstract
A combination of robust economic performance and an uptick in scientific and technological indicators over the last two decades has given rise to exuberant assessments of Africa’s development prospects in the 21st century.
By Prof. Michael Lofchie, Department of Political Science, UCLA
A vehicle for progressive change or more of the same?
History offers sobering lessons for those concerned with the prospects of broad based development in Africa. Entrenched political oligarchies do not willingly surrender their power and privilege out of a benevolent concern for the wellbeing of the many because they fear that, if they do, they might erode the basis of their dominance.
By Dr. Joanes Atela, ACTS
Unpacking Public Private Partnership (PPP)
Public-private partnership (PPP) has become a central driver of climate change actions- both in negotiations and implementation.
By Winnie Khaemba, ACTS
Context
‘You have been negotiating all my life’ lamented a Youth NGO’s Constituency (YOUNGO) representative while making an intervention at a UNFCCC COP 17 session in Durban, South Africa in 2011.
By: Kennedy Liti Mbeva, ACTS
Energy poverty is one of the major challenges holding back Africa’s transformation agenda, as clearly articulated in the African Union’s Agenda 2063[1].
By Dr. Joanes Atela, ACTS
By Dr. Cosmas Ochieng, former Executive Director, ACTS
