The 4th Annual Bertelsmann Foundation Conference’s theme “A Return to Jobs and Growth” was relevant and timely. The panels with participants including Sri Mulyani Indrawati (Managing Director of the World [...]
At the 4th Annual Bertelsmann Foundation Conference on global financial recovery and jobs, the blueprint for an International Non-Profit Credit Rating Agency (INCRA) was unveiled. The presentation, entitled “Positive Outlook: [...]
The Bertelsmann Foundation’s fourth annual conference (19 April 2012 in Washington, DC) included a panel entitled “In the Know, Learning to Create Jobs.” The participants were Sergio Silva do Amaral [...]
During the 4th Bertelsmann Foundation on April 19th, in cooperation with China Daily, the Bertelsmann Foundation and Financial Times hosted a conversation between Charlene Barshefsky, Senior International Partner of Wilmer [...]
The African Union declared the Lord’s Resistance Army a terrorist group in November 2011 and in late March 2012, the African Union dispatched 5000 troops from Uganda, South Sudan, the [...]
The permanent secretary of Kenya’s Ministry of Information, Dr. Bitange Ndemo has planned Konza City, which will be built on a 2,000 hectare plot of land 60 kilometers from Nairobi. [...]
East Africa has the lowest level of urbanization on the continent. United Nations Population Division (UNPD) data estimates East Africa’s rate of urbanization to be 23 percent in 2007. Circular [...]
Africa is a young continent, with 65 percent of the continent’s population is under the age of 24, with over 40 percent of the total population below the age of [...]
Ethiopia is Africa’s biggest aid recipient, and one of Africa’s most food-insecure nations. Simultaneously, Ethiopia is one of most militarized nations on the continent, with a history of both internal [...]
Global governance and the movement toward a Greater WE means a protection of global public goods, supranational structures and the harmonization of laws and procedures regarding human rights, trade and [...]
