DOES FOREIGN AID MAKE ECONOMIC SENSE?
Finn Tarp, Director, UNU-WIDER
Foreign aid is often seen as different from other forms of investment, and some argue that rather than having a positive effect it tends to distort economies and...
Emerging African economies: strategies for coping with global financial crisis
The recent global economic recess has far reaching implications on the stock market, employment of labor and survival of the production sector. Investors are poorly compensated, jobs are lost in thousands...
Tana 2014 – Africa’s peace and security and illicit financial flows
The 3rd Tana Forum to discuss the Impacts of Illicit Financial Flows on Peace and Security in Africa from April 26-27 , 2014, Bahir Dar, ETHIOPIA
The Third Tana High -Level Forum...
Uganda’s oil wealth: Development prospects and potential dutch disease effects
Uganda’s oil wealth: Development prospects and potential dutch disease effects
By Lawrence Bategeka and John Mary Matovu
Uganda’s development prospects were greatly enhanced by the country’s discovery of oil deposits in 2006. However,...
Climate change and East Africa’s Economic progress
It is a misconception in many African countries that climate change is a ‘first world problem. While Africa has contributed little to global warming, Africa economies and environmental ecosystems is nevertheless...
Tanzanian customers get free mobile access to Facebook
Tigo Tanzania in a partnership with Facebook have agreed free access to Facebook services in English and a new Kiswahili version through their mobile handsets. It is the first time that...