A growing weight of academic research strongly suggests that investing in adolescent girls – by ensuring equal access to education, technology, employment and political participation – is one of the most cost-effective tools for reducing poverty in lesser developed countries. Yet, governments in many countries, as well as the global donor community, have been relatively...
Monthly Archives: July 2009
The World Economic Forum today released ICT for Economic Growth: A Dynamic Ecosystem Driving the Global Recovery, an analysis of how information and communication technologies (ICT) can serve as fundamental enablers for the global economic recovery. Demonstrating the importance of ICT as a catalyst for growth, the report highlights the industry’s complex and interdependent...
Calestous Juma, Development is easier done than said. This inversion of the old maxim reflects the end of an era in which Africa’s development was defined largely as a matter for discourse rather than accomplishment. The traditional focus on relief and emergency activities is being replaced by a new focus on competence building to enable Africa solve its own problems. In...
