Africa Beyond COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has had severe economic consequences across Africa. Even as Africa is still in the middle of the outbreak, some have started to look at ...
Center for Global Development
Public webinar with Dr Dambisa Moyo: Covid and the World Economy
The coronavirus crisis is likely to have profound and long-term economic consequences on the world's dynamic as we know it. The current situation has led ...
Centre for Policy Studies
Technological Change and Skill Development The case of Sudan
This research discusses the need for skill development and interaction with technological change in the Sudan. We recognise upskilling as a necessary ...
UNU MERIT
High-level event on UNESCO qualifications passport for refugees and vulnerable migrants.
This high-level event will comprise of a panel discussion, refugee testimonies and an engaging art activity that will draw attention to the critical plight of refugees ...
UNESCO
The Covid-19 crisis facing informal workers – what can be done?
Institute of Development Studies
Hon Philipo Augustino Mulugo, Dep Min of Education & Voc Training, Tanzania, Innovation Africa 2012
http://africanbrains.net/ia Hon. Philipo Augustino Mulugo -- Deputy Minister of Education and Vocational Training, Tanzania, speaking on Education for ...
AfricanBrains
Stories from the Continent with Haddy Ndure- Special Guest Dr Ismaila Ceesay
The Fatu Network
'New Vistas of Higher Education and International Student Mobility' held on 16 July 2020
ICM organised a virtual discussion titled 'New Vistas of Higher Education and International Student Mobility' on 16 July 2020. The discussion aimed to deliberate ...
India Centre for Migration
Middle Income Trap
The middle income trap is when countries that have achieved middle-income status often experience a growth slowdown and a stagnation in the growth of real ...
tutor2u
Dr. Dambisa Moyo, Global Economist & Author, 5/21/18
Dr. Dambisa Moyo, Global Economist & Author, spoke to The Economic Club of Chicago on May 21, 2018. Following her remarks, she participated in a Q&A ...
The Economic Club of Chicago
7 Lucrative Business Opportunities Right Now To Invest In Africa
Africa is the fastest growing and most profitable region in the world today. Six of the 10 fastest growing economies in the world are in Africa. Some say it's risky to ...
After School Africa
Finnish investment helps close the education gap in Africa
Finnfund has invested USD 7 million in Maarifa Education Group, a private tertiary education company operating in Sub-Saharan Africa. It offers high quality ...
FinnfundFinland
Strive Masiyiwa, Founder and Executive Chairman of Econet
Strive Masiyiwa, by invitation of Stanford University's Africa Business Club and the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, discussed entrepreneurship, philanthropy, ...
Stanford Graduate School of Business
China’s investment in Africa: consequences for Europe | 24 June 2019
In recent times, China's presence in Africa has steadily been on the rise. One of the key channels in which China is influencing Africa's economy is investment, ...
Bruegel
Unlocking Youth Unemployment: The Big Idea | Kenneth Molosi | TEDxGaborone
Statistics indicate that youth unemployment in Botswana stands at about 40 percent and employment opportunities are not in sight, a recipe for a potentially ...
TEDx Talks
ECONOMIST DAMBISA MOYO: THE EDGE OF CHAOS
The widening gap between the rich and the poor is one of the most important issues facing societies worldwide. Income inequality has increased drastically over ...
Commonwealth Club
Can We Create Good Institutions?
Visit: http://www.uctv.tv/) Ann Swidler first inquires as to what makes institutions good before questioning how such institutions might be achieved given our ...
University of California Television (UCTV)
Social Security Cards Explained
The Social Security card and number explained. Visit the Grey subreddit: http://reddit.com/r/cgpgrey Special Thanks: Stephen P. Morse, PhD.
CGP Grey
Undergraduate Spring Panel: Urbanization and the Growth of Mega-Cities
The rise of "mega-cities" present both unprecedented opportunities and unprecedented challenges. Much work on urbanization has focused on the so-called ...
Becker Friedman Institute at UChicago - BFI
Jane Goodall, E.O. Wilson, & Jack Dangermond
Jack Dangermond welcomes two of the greatest minds in conservation and biodiversity – Jane Goodall and E.O. Wilson – to share what they've learned over ...
Esri Events
Investing in Innovation for Development with Michael Kremer
On January 24, 2019, Michael Kremer led a discussion on investing in innovation for development as part of the Center on Global Poverty and Development ...
Stanford
How Industry and Governments can Collaborate Moving Forwards
Nils Handler Research Assistant Federal Institute of Geosciences & Natural Resources - German Government Isabelle Ramdoo Senior Associate and ...
Future of Mining
Opportunities for all: World Bank Group-Cambodia Country Partnership 2019-2023
Over the past 20 years, Cambodia has been one of the fastest-growing countries in the world. While growth has been pro-poor, to continue this transition ...
World Bank
15 Things You Did Not Know About Opportunities In Agriculture
Recently, a three year old agric-technology startup, acquired a sixteen year old agribusiness. Farmcrowdy, the pioneer of digital Agric-crowdfunding venture ...
After School Africa
Africa with Dambisa Moyo
During the past fifty years, more than $1 trillion in development-related aid has been transferred from rich countries to Africa. Moyo asserts, however, that this ...
Hoover Institution
RES Annual Public Lecture 2018: What Economists Really Do - Oriana Bandiera (Full lecture)
Oriana Bandiera's presentation at the 2018 Royal Economic Society Annual Public Lecture, which took place at the University of York on 28/11/2018. Oriana is ...
RoyalEconomicSociety
Africa 2050: Will Africa claim the 21st century?
Leading global futurist Dr Ian Goldin visits the RSA to look at Africa's future prospects in this exclusive keynote lecture.
The RSA
KILM and the Sustainable Development Goals
Rafael Diez de Medina, the Director of the ILO's Department of Statistics, explains the importance of indicators for the success of the Sustainable Development ...
International Labour Organization
A sense of the past: Britain, Europe, and the legacies of war
An Inaugural lecture by Professor Helen Parr, Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Keele University. The question of Britain's relationship with the ...
Keele University
Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture 2020 | Mobility and Immobility in the Time of Coronavirus
Mobility and Immobility in the Time of Coronavirus: Reflections from Long-Term Study of Migration and Displacement | Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture 2020 ...
Refugee Studies Centre
The Point: Why invest in Africa (Changsha Special)
Africa offers the highest return on foreign direct investment in the world, according to the UN. Many investors see Africa as the "final frontier" as other emerging ...
CGTN
Growing the Rural Non-Farm Economy to Alleviate Poverty
Extreme Poverty is increasingly a rural phenomenon. Rural non-farm activities account for 35 to 50% of rural income in developing countries. For the landless ...
IEG WorldBankGroup
Conférence de Martin Wolf - La crise du capitalisme démocratique
Symposium annuel USIAS 2019 Martin Wolf, commentateur économique en chef au Financial Times de Londres. L'alliance entre démocratie libérale et ...
Université de Strasbourg
Africa 2012 - Rethinking South-South Relations
http://www.weforum.org/ Moving 5 million of China's 85 million low-value manufacturing jobs to Africa could boost employment by 50%. As China, India and ...
World Economic Forum
Live: Davos 2020 - How to best tackle poverty 冬季达沃斯论坛——共享减贫经验，共促减贫发展
"For a cohesive and sustainable world," that is the theme of Davos 2020. Is the world becoming better? What about people around the world facing hunger, ...
CGTN
Webinar | The Future of Work Remaking Rural Employment after COVID 19 (July 16, 2020)
AgriFin Accelerate shared insights from their recent Rural Jobs Landscape Study and explored its implications with CGAP and an expert panel of service ...
CGAP
Sino-Africa relations in the new era
China is the largest developing country and Africa is the continent with the largest concentration of developing countries. So, there is the natural affinity for ...
CGTN
The changing economic and social-policy making of the African National Congress
On the 28 November 2019, Vishnu Padayachee and Robert van Niekerk of the University of Witwatersrand, and authors of ''Shadow of Liberation: Contestation ...
Kellogg College, University of Oxford
Women of the World: Pain, Progress, and Power Through a CultureGrams Lens
Rachel Ligairi takes an international view of women's issues related to work, family and social institutions by drawing on the rich resources in ProQuest's ...
Alexander Street, a ProQuest Company
LSE-Oxford seminar series: Insights from Development Studies in the Era of the Pandemic
Macroeconomic Impacts on the global South (Dr Ben Radley, LSE) Disruption to global trade and global value chains (Professor Xiaolan Fu, ODID) Thursday 30 ...
ODID QEH
Cash transfers provide social protection to Zambia's most vulnerable families
UNICEF correspondent Guy Hubbard reports on a programme providing cash grants to impoverished households in Zambia. Similar efforts are being ...
UNICEF
Covid-19 and the Oxford Scenario Planning Approach
Covid-19 and the Oxford scenario planning approach How to best navigate your organisation through the uncertainty of the Covid-19 outbreak? In this ...
Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
