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Business Action for Africa: January 2008

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Business Action for Africa. Delivering positive change for Africa and its people. Saturday, 26 January 2008. Davos 2008: The business of tackling poverty. The latest World Economic Forum in Davos. Has added further momentum to the UK Prime Minister's Call to Action. On the Millennium Development Goals. MDGs) - the set of 8 goals to be met by 2015, adopted by world leaders in 2000 to drive action on poverty, health, education and the environment. The 21 business leaders who originally signed a statement.

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Business Action for Africa: Africa Progress Panel

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Business Action for Africa. Delivering positive change for Africa and its people. Wednesday, 19 November 2008. Read the Africa Progress Panel's (APP) new fortnightly Bulletin. It is intended to provide Panel members, their staff and key stakeholders with a snapshot of the issues and events of central concern to the APP. Labels: Africa Progress Panel. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Business Action for Africa. About the blog authors. Find out more about the authors. Join Business Fights Poverty!

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Business Action for Africa: Former President of Botswana wins the Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership

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Business Action for Africa. Delivering positive change for Africa and its people. Monday, 20 October 2008. Former President of Botswana wins the Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership. Kofi Annan announces today the former President of Botswana as the winner of the Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership. 8220;President Mogae’s outstanding leadership has ensured Botswana’s continued stability and prosperity in the face of an HIV/AIDS pandemic which threatened the futu...8220;Bots...

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Business Action for Africa: Business and governments review investment climate progress at UN meeting

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Business Action for Africa. Delivering positive change for Africa and its people. Friday, 26 September 2008. Business and governments review investment climate progress at UN meeting. To coincide with this week’s UN High Level Meeting on Africa’s Development Needs, the UN Office for Partnerships and Business Action for Africa joined forces to organise a meeting to gauge progress on improving Africa’s investment climate. Amir Dossal, Executive Director, UN Office for Partnerships, noted that encouraging r...

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Business Action for Africa: Global Competitiveness Report shows encouraging progress for Africa

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Business Action for Africa. Delivering positive change for Africa and its people. Thursday, 9 October 2008. Global Competitiveness Report shows encouraging progress for Africa. The World Economic Forum’s. Released on the 8. October adds to the picture of an improving climate for business in Africa. The United States tops the rankings, followed by Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden and Singapore. Labels: Global Competitiveness Report. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Business Action for Africa. Global Compet...

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Business Action for Africa: April 2008

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Business Action for Africa. Delivering positive change for Africa and its people. Friday, 4 April 2008. Making progress in the fight against poverty in Ghana. According to a UN report launched in February and circulated today – the 2007 Ghana National Human Development Report "Towards a More Inclusive Society",. Ghana is set to become the first African country to meet the first Millennium Development Goal. 8211; the Africa-led process for driving good governance. Wednesday, 2 April 2008. Douglas Alexande...

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Business Action for Africa: Africa and the credit crisis

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Business Action for Africa. Delivering positive change for Africa and its people. Thursday, 23 October 2008. Africa and the credit crisis. 160;this week, BBC journalist Martin Plaut, asks the question: Can Africa gain in the credit crisis? Banks are far less exposed than their Western counterparts, but depressed international demand is likely to impact on economic growth, according to the IMF. 5 January 2009 at 10:27. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Business Action for Africa. About the blog authors.

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Business Action for Africa: December 2007

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Business Action for Africa. Delivering positive change for Africa and its people. Thursday, 13 December 2007. Tough Talking in Lisbon: the EU-Africa Business Forum. This being the third meeting. In the series (after Accra in July and Brussels in Nov last year), we knew what we wanted from this, which was just as well as it was in danger of being hijacked a few times. So, all things considered, it was not a bad outcome for a half-day programme - the short speech by Vincent Maphai of BHP Billiton. Join Bus...

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Business Action for Africa: October 2008

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Business Action for Africa. Delivering positive change for Africa and its people. Thursday, 23 October 2008. Africa and the credit crisis. 160;this week, BBC journalist Martin Plaut, asks the question: Can Africa gain in the credit crisis? Banks are far less exposed than their Western counterparts, but depressed international demand is likely to impact on economic growth, according to the IMF. Monday, 20 October 2008. Is the largest annually awarded prize in the world, consisting of US$5 million over 10 ...

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Business Action for Africa: November 2007

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Business Action for Africa. Delivering positive change for Africa and its people. Friday, 2 November 2007. Fresh thinking at DFID. A wind of change is blowing through the UK's Department for International Development. DFID) A string of speeches over the last month have signalled a new and welcome direction: speeches by Douglas Alexander. The Secretary of State), Baroness Shriti Vadera. A DFID Minister) and Suma Chakrabarti. EITI), the Construction Sector Transparency Initiative. As a long-standing DFID-o...