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SUPERBANK POWERS CHINA GROWTH BUT AUTHORS QUESTION SUSTAINABILITY
IT has been called the world’s most powerful bank. In their book ‘China’s Superbank Debt, Oil and Influence – How China Development Bank [CDB] is Rewriting the Rules of Finance’, Bloomberg journalists Henry Sanderson and Michael Forsythe describe how the “CDB’s system of local government finance has helped lift millions out of poverty and shielded the country from recession”.…
ETHIOPIA PERSONAL CARE SECTOR EXPERIENCING RAPID GROWTH
BY JONATHAN DYSON, IN ADDIS ABABA
WITH Africa’s second largest population – around 85 million – and one of the world’s fastest-growing economies (expanding 7% annually over recent years), the potential of Ethiopia as a market for cosmetics products is beginning to be realised by the personal care products sector worldwide.…
GROWING MIDDLE CLASS FUELS COSMETICS SALES IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
BY ANDREW GREEN, IN KAMPALA; AND BILLCORCORAN, IN CAPE TOWN
THE TRIPLING in the size of Africa’s middle class over the last 30 years to what the African Development Bank estimates is now 313 million people coupled with increased urbanisation, are driving the growth of the continent’s cosmetics industry and markets.…
ETHIOPIA HAS ITS SIGHTS SET ON FULL CAR MANUFACTURING BY 2015
BY JONATHAN DYSON, IN ADDIS ABABA
IN the latest sign that Ethiopia has a robustly expanding auto manufacturing sector, China’s Lifan has said that it is to double its assembly capacity in the country. The manufacturer revealed to wardsauto that it is to open a new plant with a capacity of 1,500 to 2,000 cars per year in Ethiopia in the middle of next year.…
CORRUPTION? NOT IN MY BACK YARD!
BY ANDREW GREEN
SEPTEMBER 17, 2012
RAYMOND Qatahar, a first-year law student at Uganda’s Makerere University, is eager to be able finally to use Not In My Country. The website launched in May asks university students in Uganda to report corruption in higher education – such as professors and lecturers trading higher grades for money or sex – and lets students rate classroom experiences.…
CORRUPTION ALLEGATIONS IN EAST AFRICA'S KEY TEXTBOOK MARKET ARE HARD TO NAIL DOWN
BY ANDREW GREEN, IN KAMPALA
For publishers working in east Africa, textbooks spell survival, but two major western publishers have found recently that the ethical dilemmas of working in the region can be hard to navigate.
With fierce competition for those contracts and limited local oversight capacity, the industry is dogged by persistent rumors of requests for and payments of bribery, money paid to delay rival’s books and other forms of corruption.…
UGANDA: VETERAN ACADEMIC BRINGS ALTRUISTIC DYNAMISM TO CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY
BY ANDREW GREEN, IN KAMPALA
Uganda is undergoing a higher education boom. The result of introducing universal primary education in 1997 and universal secondary education a decade later is a surplus of students looking for a university placement. Uganda’s 30 public and private universities offer 50,000 spots for qualified secondary school graduates.…
ENGLISH SPREADS AS TEACHING LANGUAGE IN UNIVERSITIES WORLDWIDE
BY ANDREW GREEN, WANG FANGQING, PAUL COCHRANE, JONATHAN DYSON AND CARMEN PAUN
THE POLITECNO di Milano, one of Italy’s most prestigious universities, will teach and assess most of its degree courses and all its postgraduate ones entirely in English from 2014, UWN reported recently.…
ACCOUNTING FIRMS SERVICE AFRICA'S ECONOMIC GROWTH
BY VILLEN ANGANAN, IN BEAU-BASSIN, MAURITIUS
INTERNATIONAL accounting firms are exploring opportunities within Africa, and are using the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius – a regional financial centre – as a stepping stone. All the Big Four: Ernst &Young, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), KPMG and Deloitte are already successfully offering their services to African clients.…
SUGAR OFFERS AFRICAN BIOFUEL PRODUCERS A FEEDSTOCK - BUT DEVELOPMENT WILL BE CHALLENGING
BY BILL CORCORAN, IN CAPE TOWN; MOHAMMED YUSUF, IN NAIROBI; AND KEITH NUTHALL
A BOOK launched at last December’s Durban international climate change conference has focused on the growing potential for sugar to be a biofuel feedstock in Africa. ‘Bioenergy for Sustainable Development and International Competitiveness:
The Role of Sugar Cane in Africa’ was written by 44 authors representing 30 organisations in 16 countries and was published by Routledge.…