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Economics
The African growth story lacks of growth
Fund raisers like to describe Africa as a tremendous growth story. The figures however do not justify an overwhelming Afro-optimism. The truth is more complicated. The headlines of ...
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How the African continent discovers ice hockey
Ice hockey becomes popular in Kenya. This show how outdated are some prejudices the North still in regard with Africa. ...
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Economics
Europe needs a European Export Credit Agency
China is taking over the building of the African infrastructure. Its main advantage is financing. Europe has urgently to create unified financial programmes for Africa. For months, we ...
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Agriculture
New hope for investors in Ethiopian farming
Foreign investors might complain that business has been hard in Ethiopia since 2016. This is not an excuse for bad performance. Farming was always doing quite well. Investment ...
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Economics
Things are starting to move in Ethiopia
The Frankfurt Chamber of Commerce held on Friday the Ethiopian-German Economic Forum. The main message was: Ethiopia is back and the government is working hard on improving the ...
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Economics
From Cape Town to the North Cape: creating one economic zone
The African trade with Europe is based on the Cotonou Agreement. It will be renegotiated from end of August on. This is a good opportunity for fully integrating ...
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Companies & Markets
Europe should build industry clusters in Africa
In an interesting op ed, published in a German newspaper, the two lawyers Thomas Langohr und Alexander Letzsch are proposing to bundle the forces of European companies and ...
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English
Africa-Mediterranean-Europe needs an interregional bank
The BRICS countries – Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa – will create a bank. Europe needs a specific bank too if it wants to develop economic relationship ...
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Elections in Mali could be a good opportunity for federalism
Malians have elected a new President this weekend. Beyond this decision, the real question will be to rebuild the national unity. It should be based on a federalist ...
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No doubt, the CFA franc is a success story
African artists accused the CFA franc in a rap to be an “instrument of repression”. We at Africa Partners do not share this view. It is true, the ...
Read more on the African growth story
Read more on the African growth story in my book
“Afrika ist das neue Asien”
published in German by September 2014 with
the publishing house Hoffmann & Campe in Hamburg.
