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409, 2017

Re-Engineering Development in African Countries Part-4

The Way Forward for African Countries The (only) way forward is to identify and resolve the structural impediments to development one at a time. The term, structural impediment, denotes the existence of foundational anomalies in a society that militates against society’s advancement. These anomalies should be unearthed and wrestled to the ground satisfactorily so that [...]

1608, 2017

Trumping China’s Investment in Africa: How the United States Can Benefit from Focusing Their Attention on Africa

President Trump has called for a $1 trillion investment in the infrastructure of the United States that focuses on repairing roads, bridges, and airports and aims to put over one million Americans to work. As this plan continues to develop, it will be interesting to see if any word is mentioned of a second infrastructure [...]

1906, 2017

Re-Engineering Development in African Countries Part 3

The World is a “Business Ecosystem” Managed by Politicians Part of the reason for the success of countries that have either made up ground or surpassed Western nations is that they get it. They get the fact that commerce is the business of the world’s nations. At the risk of over-simplification, the profit from supplying [...]

2205, 2017

Re-Engineering Development in African Countries part 2

A Tale of Two Africas—Reality and Plunder One narrative is based on the “Euro-plunder mentality” of pre-colonial, post-slave trade era that led European “treasure-hunting” entrepreneurs to invade African shores in search of “plunder.” This narrative was akin to a bugle-horn blast to all who have “ears” that there is “gold in them thar hills” of [...]

1002, 2017

Re-Engineering Development in African countries

This wide-ranging analysis about re-engineering development in African countries is not for the faint of heart. It is not for those who would rather gloss over the challenges facing African countries and indulge in delusional fantasies about African “riches.” For those people, now would be the time to opt out of this discussion. In my [...]

205, 2016

Building Competitiveness in African Societies and Countries

Sustainable, irreversible economic development of African nations depends on evolving competitive societies that win in the marketplace of products, ideas, and tenacity. Everything in life depends on winning. Competition extends to the cosmos between the powers of good versus evil. It’s natural. The most successful companies sell winning products or services. The most successful athlete [...]

912, 2015

How African countries can use “Offset” in domestic procurement

Part of the mission of our newsletter, Unleash Africa, the website, unleashafricantrade.com blog, and the book, “Unleashed: A New paradigm of African Trade with the World,” is to share useful information with readers and, hopefully, leaders and policy-makers of African countries. The intention is to make an impact on several fronts. (1) To stimulate intense [...]

1110, 2015

A Matrix of Export Opportunities for African Countries

To paraphrase the late Park Chung Hee; South Korea decided on export-oriented industrialization in 1963 because they realized at the time that their domestic market was too small and too poor on which to base the prospects for the nation's economic survival. Conversely, the world market presented many opportunities for affluent consumers that needed products [...]

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