I 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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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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Project UMPG: Creating sustainable jobs at the local level
January 9, 2014 Diaspora at work International Development ProjectsIt’s been a while since I updated everyone on how UMPG is doing. If you are new to this blog, see this post on what UMPG is. Basically, it’s my attempt to connect local farmers with…
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Africa’s Diaspora aren’t looking for jobs, they want to create them
November 8, 2013 Diaspora at workAmini Kajunju, President and CEO of the Africa-America Institute has an op-ed and interview on CNN about the potential of Africa’s Diaspora. Lastly, diasporans can bring their talent, energy, skills and technological know-how to furthering economic…
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Edward Paice is director at Africa Research Institute, interviews Abdirashid Duale, chief executive of Dahabshiil, the largest money transfer business in the Horn of Africa: We also provide a service for the people who might not use…
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In 2012, over 750,000 Ugandans sent home $1 billion
July 31, 2013 International Development technology Uganda758,294 Ugandan emigrants sent home $948 million in remittances in 2012. That’s fast approaching the $1.6 billion Uganda received in development aid in 2011. The really interesting nugget about Ugandan immigrants (at least according to this…
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Can Africans crowd fund the next generation African University?
July 22, 2013 Diaspora at work EducationThere are a lot of education initiatives out there led by Africans itching to revolutionize the continent’s staid educational system. First Atlantic University is by far the most ambitious that I have seen. A new university…
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Here’s an interesting mobile banking comparison done by Amin Mohseni-Cheraghlou at the World Bank between two countries that couldn’t be any more opposite in their use of mobile banking or their economic development. Russia: A survey…
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Taxing innovation for the poor to pay for sins of the rich
June 14, 2013 Economy International DevelopmentAs an advocate for the reduction of African governments dependency on foreign aid to shore up national budgets, I think this is a positive, albeit slight flawed strategy for Uganda to take. For starters, I have…
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“We are losing a lot of this capital that we need as a result of everything we throw out of the continent through illegal means and there is an estimate that the continent loses annually at…
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