Business Action for Africa, an international network devoted to reducing poverty through business, says that accelerating regional integration is essential to unlocking Africa’s trading potential.
The 2011 AGOA Forum brings back into sharp focus the key role of trade in driving Africa’s development.
For Africa to secure its share of the benefits and gains from trade, the imperative for the international community to progress world trade agreements is matched by the need for an acceleration in the pace of economic integration in Africa to create larger and more competitive markets.
Did you know that many of the products at the ONE Store are sourced from organic products from African countries like Uganda, Tanzania and Swaziland?
To help raise awareness for African trade — a crucial tool in Africa’s efforts to develop their economies and escape poverty — we created a special tag to accompany all our African-made products.
It has information about the multi-tiered and multilateral benefits of doing business with Africa.
The production of ONE products in Africa helps provide jobs and independence and puts money into the pockets of hard-working men and women — money that pays for basic necessities such as food, shelter and medicine for children.
Barrett Ward is the founder of the fashionABLE, a Nashville-based fashion company that does trade with Africa in order to bolster economic opportunities for the most vulnerable. In this blog post, he shares how the economic model of his company helps provide jobs, skills and wages to Africans.
Let’s talk seriously about the solutions to poverty.
So, I’m dying to ask: What does “private sector” mean, exactly? Our ONE members hear this term over and over again in policy pieces about international development, but it just seems to me like a blanket term for corporations.
The term “private sector” can mean several different things. It can mean the for-profit private sector, corporate philanthropy and social responsibility, or some kind of private investment. The private sector makes investments in a country — like sourcing agricultural products like coffee and cocoa or setting up a computer chip factory — and helps change the country for the better.
Our friends from the Whitaker Group, a US firm focused on creating sustainable prosperity in Africa, outlines three major takeaways from last week’s AGOA Forum.
Being on the ground to mark the 10th AGOA Forum in Lusaka this past week, surrounded by business, government and non-governmental leaders dedicated to a trade and investment approach to African prosperity, gave us ample opportunity to reflect on how the relationship between Africa and the US has changed over the last 11 years.
It also served as a reminder that the annual AGOA Forum remains one of the few places where African and American stakeholders can exchange ideas on how trade can most effectively support development. The AGOA Forum reserves time each year to build consensus toward action and to set the tone for activities over the coming year.
This blog post by MCC CEO Daniel Yohannes originally appeared on the White House blog earlier this week.
Earlier this year, President Obama made clear in his State of the Union address that his focus is on winning the future -– getting our economy going after the worst recession since the Great Depression, while laying the foundation for long-term economic growth and job creation.
Some might wonder how an international development agency like the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) fits into this vision. America has always been a generous nation, and our moral leadership is reflected in MCC’s goal of reducing poverty through economic growth in developing countries. But MCC’s investments not only benefit poor people overseas, they are critically important to our future prosperity here at home.
Carol Adelman of the Center for Global Prosperity at the Hudson Institute talks about a new report that measures philanthropy from the private sector.
Hudson Institute’s Center for Global Prosperity (CGP) has just launched its sixth annual “Index of Global Philanthropy and Remittances”, a summary of the magnitude and sources of private giving to the developing world. CGP measures philanthropy from foundations, corporations, private and voluntary organizations, universities and colleges, volunteers, and religious organizations and is the sole source of these financial flows from U.S. and other donor countries to developing countries.
Since its launch in 2003, CGP has helped to reframe the discussion on foreign aid by showing that the full scale of countries’ generosity is measured not just by government aid, but by private philanthropy, volunteerism, as well as successful public-private partnerships. We highlight the central role of the private sector, both for-profit and not-for-profit, in creating economic growth and prosperity through seminars, publications, conferences, the media, case studies in the Index, and blogging on hot topics in development aid, philanthropy and remittances.
ONE is campaigning to ensure that the Congressional budget does not cut foreign assistance programs like Feed the Future that help people break the cycle of poverty and hunger.
The Horn of Africa is experiencing its worst drought in 60 years. More than 11 million people, mostly nomadic pastoralists and farmers in south-central Somalia, north-eastern Kenya, and south-eastern Ethiopia, are severely lacking access to food.
2011 marks 30 years since the first cases of AIDS were documented. Take a closer look at the specific, achievable goals we must hit by 2015 to make this year the beginning of the end of AIDS.
As aid agencies warn more than 9 million people could be affected by a food crisis in East Africa, world leaders are failing to keep their 2009 promises to tackle the causes of chronic hunger and support farmers in the world's poorest countries.
