I’ve long wanted to look into my countries demographic breakdown. I dug around for some numbers from Google (via World Bank data) and some from USAID. Not all numbers for each age group are available, so…
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IFC and Goldman Sachs Launch $600 Million Global Facility for Female Entrepreneurs
March 9, 2014 International DevelopmentThe Women Entrepreneurs Opportunity Facility is the first of its kind to be dedicated exclusively to financing women-owned small and medium businesses in developing countries. IFC will invest an initial $100 million and the Goldman Sachs…
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Why Venture Capital hasn’t taken off in Africa
February 25, 2014 Economy International Development Projects technologyI got this question in my email and thought the answer would make for a good post: I’m curious though, why hasn’t VC taken as strong of a hold in Africa? The last two decades it’s…
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Pippa Biddle on coming to terms with the privilege inherent in the color of her skin as a ‘voluntourist (Seriously blog gods, we’ve been writing about “voluntourism” for ages now, stop auto-correcting it to ‘voluntarism’!!!)’: After…
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David Philips blogs at Development Without Aid, in response to Gates Foundation’s annual letter: But there is no evidence that this was to do with development aid and plenty that it was to do with Global economic…
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Africa’s richest man at the World Economic Forum in Davos on the freedom of movement on the continent: Dangote said his vision is for the free movement of goods, services and people across the continent. “I…
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Shane Cole reports for Apple Insider: The Parliament of Kenya is set to join a growing trend toward paperless governance with the purchase of some 450 iPads to be used by representatives and staff in the…
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The Africa that could have been and the Africa that can be
January 19, 2014 International DevelopmentThis map has been running around Twitter this week. I finally got a minute to look behind the scenes of how it came about. I thought it was worth sharing some interesting information and links to…
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Presidential cognitive dissonance in two paragraphs: Museveni continued: “You cannot call an abnormality an alternative orientation. It could be that the Western societies, on account of random breeding, have generated many abnormal people,” he said, adding…
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Vera at Africa on the Blog: If each one of us can take it upon themselves to try and offer long-term solutions to the problems we are presented with then I believe we will be well…
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