AFRICA
Last updated 25 May, 2003
My association with the Centre for Social Economics
and a series of publications
on Africa (see also my luso home page)
reveal my interest on Africa which led me to join up with the African
Development Bank almost imediately upon arrival at the OECD Development
Centre and to champion several innovative ventures with African researchers
and private sector:
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the workshop on the NEPAD Peer Review and Public Private Partnerships
for Development at ABCDE
Europe 2003, the introduction is available
here.
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the project on Public Private Partnerships for Development in post conflict
situations the case of the Democratic Republic of Congo (PPP/DRC), described
in the press communique
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the African Economic Outlook (AEO) project, which has received funding
from the European Commission and whose second edition was launched in Paris
on March 3.
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the pilot project on Public Private Partnership in Mozambique (PPP/MOZ),
which has received funding from the Portuguese Aid Agency (APAD),
originally intended for the Private
Sector Development Program of the OECD Sahel Club, which subsequently
abandoned work outside West Africa, so that the funding was rerouted towards
the OECD Development Centre. On 1 October, I presented the AEO project
and the prospects for the Mozambique economy at the final conference in
Maputo, opened by the Prime Minister of Mozambique.
Some recent events:
On 25 April I participated in the Forum of L´Économiste
Mahrébin in Tunis, dealing with the internationalization of
tunisian business and presented relevant OECD
publications, namely the African Economic Outlook and the Euromed book.
On 9 April, I participated in a panel on NEPAD with President Abdoulaye
Wade at Sciences-Po where
I presented him with a copy of the second edition of the African
Economic Outlook.
On 8 April, I co-chaired with the Economy Minister a conference on Public
Private Partnerships for Development in post conflict situations the case
of the Democratic Republic of Congo, held in Kishasa. The press communique
(in French) is available here
On 4 April, I chaired on behalf of the Secretary General a presentation
of President Joaquim Chissano of Mozambique at OECD headquarters in the
presence of Mr. Omar Kabbaj, President of the African Development Bank.
On 4 March, I presented the second edition of the African
Economic Outlook to the board of the Business
Council Europe Africa Mediterranean (BCEAM) in Paris.
On 24 February, 2003 I made a preliminary presentation of the second edition
of the African Economic Outlook and at the
experts' meeting on "Effective Strategies to realize NEPAD: The Role of
Action Mapping and Peer Review", organised by the Centre for Global
Studies, University of Victoria, Canada at the UN Economic Commission for
Africa in Addis-Ababa, Ethiopia.
On 25 September, 2002 I made a presentation on public private partnerships
at
a conferencia sobre O "Development in Portuguese", held at Portuguese
Embassy in Luanda, Angola.
On 29-31 August, I attended the Fifth International Conference
Europe-Africa of the Aspen Institute France on « The contribution
of the private sector in the implementation of NEPAD » in Annecy
and introduced session I on The new African political environment overlying
the NEPAD. I also distributed some copies of the African Economic Outlook,
including one to the conference chairman Raymond Barre. The guest of honour
was the President of Senegal who had been
at the launch of this OECD publication on Africa.
The text is available here.
On 14 June, 2002 Professor Wiseman Nkhulu, secretary general of the New
Partnership for African Development (NEPAD) visited the OECD. After his
seminar I hosted a lunch in his honor, where one of the topics was the
role of the private sector in Africa's development.
On February 6, 2002 President Abdoulaye Wade visited the OECD (where he
used to come as an economist in the early 1970s) to attend the 3rd Forum
on African Perspectives organised with the African Development Bank. It
was the day when, in the words of the President of the Advisory Board on
the Development Centre "Africa came to the OECD".
A picture of welcome
here.