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Beyond SMS and broadband: amplifying current opportunities for Internet-enabled development
By Dan Tuttle It has been well-documented that access to the Internet propels both business growth and economic development. Yet conversations on information and communication technologies for development (ICT4D) in Africa frequently focus on SMS programs, mobile money, or the … Continue reading
Posted in Mobile for Development
Tagged Africa, agriculture, and small and medium enterprise, Dalberg Research, education and labor, energy, financial inclusion, Ghana, Google, governance, Health, ICT and mobile for development, ICT4D, Impact of the Internet, internet, Jobberman, Kenya, Nigeria, pilot, scale, Senegal, SME, SMEs, Virtual City
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Harnessing the Internet to spur SME growth in Africa
By Daniel Kaplan Food Export International is a food export business operating out of Accra, Ghana. Eric Kwaku started the company by himself in 2005. Since then, it has grown to include 10 management staff, selling produce from over 100 … Continue reading
Posted in Mobile for Development
Tagged AfDB, Africa, African, African Development Bank, African Guarantee Fund, business, Dalberg Research, Denmark, Food Export International, Ghana, Google, growth, ICT, ICT and mobile for development, ICT4D, Impact of the Internet, Innovation Ghana, internet, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, SME, SMEs, Spain, Sub Saharan Africa, survey, World Bank
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Diversifying in South Sudan: Africa’s newest agricultural investment frontier
By Nungari Mwangi, Julia Shen, and Greg Snyders In July 2011, the people of South Sudan voted overwhelmingly for independence from Sudan, creating the world’s newest country. Since then, one of the greatest challenges facing South Sudan has been diversifying … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Inclusive Growth
Tagged Africa, agricultural financing, agricultural investment, agriculture, Concord Agriculture, development, Diversification, economic development, inclusive growth, post-conflict, private sector, SAB Miller, Salva Kiir, sorghum, South Sudan, South Sudan Beverages Limited, White Bull
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BRICS: Can South Africa represent the entire continent?
by Daniel Kaplan and Devang Vussonji In the kingdom of developing countries, there used to be the big four: China, the assembly line of the world; India, the world’s back-office; Russia, the energy behemoth; and Brazil, the biofuel and large-scale … Continue reading
Posted in Strategy and Performance
Tagged Africa, Brazil, BRICS, BRICS summit, China, development, India, Russia, South Africa, trade
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Lending at the margins in Africa
By Matt Shakhovskoy Capital to finance new beehives for a local beekeeping cooperative in Zambia or a line of credit for a tea company in Rwanda to fund tea purchases from smallholder farmers are not your typical projects for the … Continue reading
Posted in Access to Finance
Tagged Africa, agriculture, finance, impact investing, lending, private sector, Root Capital, Rwanda, SME, Zambia
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Saving lives efficiently with Community Health Workers
By Ya’ir Aizenmann Often, discussion on global health efforts focuses on the newest medicine or latest advanced device. However, Dalberg recently designed a framework for the MDG Health Alliance to analyze an approach that has been around for decades – Community Health … Continue reading
Posted in Global Health
Tagged Africa, Asia, Bangladesh, BRAC, CHW, development, Ethiopia, global health, Health, JHU, MDG Health Alliance, MDGs, Pakistan
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Addressing the global gender disparity in ICT access
“Over the past decade, the international development community has recognized that investing in women is the most direct and effective way to promote economic growth, peace, and prosperity,” writes Ann Mei Chang, Senior Advisor on Women and Technology to the … Continue reading
Convening African leaders for an intergenerational dialogue on youth
The youth population in Africa is growing faster than in any other part of the world. With nearly 200 million people between the ages of 15 and 24, African youth currently account for 20% of the continent’s population. In some … Continue reading
Posted in Education and Youth Development
Tagged AfLI, Africa, African Leadership Institute, partnerships, Senegal, Tutu Fellowship, youth
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Funding Burundi’s Future: Donor conference more than doubles fundraising goal
More than 450 representatives from the public and private sectors gathered in Geneva last week to discuss opportunities for partnership and financial support for economic and social development in Burundi. The conference, which aimed to raise $1.1 billion from donors, … Continue reading
Posted in Strategy and Performance
Tagged Africa, Burundi, CSLP II, donor conference, donors, funding, partnerships, poverty reduction, UNDP
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Strengthening Burundi through partnership, good governance
Burundi is quickly becoming one of East Africa’s development success stories. In the 1990s, the ethnic violence between the Hutus and the Tutsis had devastating effects on Burundi’s population, leaving 200,000 dead, 140,000 internally displaced, and forcing an additional 48,000 … Continue reading
