Africa in world’s economic competitiveness

BY ALAN GREEN The World Economic Forum just released the 2017-2018 edition of the biennial Global Competitiveness Report which compares the world’s economies against each other on the basis of … Read More

Africa is high on the G20 summit agenda. But will Trump do what thwart progress?

BY JOHN J. TREMLAU When G20 leaders meet in Hamburg in early July they face a problem not on their formal agenda: how to work around Donald Trump. The US president disdains … Read More

African leaders at the U.S.-Africa Business Summit call for U.S. investment

BY ALAN GREEN With an estimated 800 participants in attendance, including U.S. commerce secretary Wilbur Ross, Mozambique’s president Felipe Nyusi, and the president of the African Development Bank, Dr. Akinwumi … Read More