By Aysha House-Moshi, Director, OPIC Congressional Affairs. This article was originally published on OPIC’s website. “You can’t build a country without concrete.” The statement has particular relevance in Haiti, where, more than three years since a 7.0 magnitude earthquake resulted in extensive death and destruction, the country is still working to repair and rebuild and
At the moment, nearly half of sub-Saharan Africa’s population will remain without electricity until 2030. However, yesterday United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon stated that we can’t achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) without increasing energy access.
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What happens when you provide young African creatives with the tools to create their own beats? UNC Chapel Hill hip-hop professors and artists Stephen Levitin (aka Apple Juice Kid) and Pierce Freelon traveled to Senegal and the Democratic Republic of Congo to find out. Beat Making Lab started as a class at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill -undergrads earn 3 credit hours and are taught the practical, historical and entrepreneurial aspects of Beat Making.
In my writings, I often mention how many people don’t have access to electricity or modern clean cooking facilities and I say this is a terrible thing. But the real question is WHY? Why is it so terrible not to have access to electricity or modern forms of energy?
Notwithstanding its popularity as tourist destination Thailand has achieved steady economic growth over the last decade largely due to industrial and agriculture exports. These exports are mostly electronics, agricultural commodities and processed foods – the production of which is heavily reliant on electricity. However, 30 years ago, only 25 percent of the population had access to electricity – so what changed?
Regular readers of the ONE blog will be aware that well over 500 million people in sub-Saharan Africa do not have any access to electricity. This situation has huge economic and social implications for the continent: it restricts education and life-saving healthcare provision, limits business growth and leads to regression in job creation. Zimbabwean student
Many things in our modern lives make us angry: long lines at the supermarket, missing the last bus, traffic jams, difficult-to-open packaging. Sometimes though, it’s worth taking stock and considering something we should be really angry about: energy poverty. Yesterday I was at the launch of the International Energy Agency’s World Energy Outlook 2012 report and sitting in
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