Davos 2012 - Africa - From Transition to Transformation

Good People,

If an investor wants transparency, the same applies to what African people demand off their Leaders i.e. Responsibility, Accountability with Integrity that must go along in a Democratic Governance where Leadership is expected to respect oath of Office that requires and commands compliance of Human Rights with observing Public Mandate...........without which, Africa's Wealth and Resources shall not account the real GDP or Value for Wealth and Resources. Any good business is about "Give and Take" exchanges of checks and balances. If this is honored and is respected, then there shall be a wider prospects for business and commerce that shall offer turnover automation of systematic flow wheel of Progressive Development moving forward as a success story.

The Review of DAVOS 2012 urging African Leaders Co-operation is fundamentally important and it should be revisited by all people of African Descent for a greater push. This calls for joint Africa's forces to challenge people like Museveni, Kagame and Uhuru who have the defeatist mentality to be faught from all corners and it is a war that they must be defeated, if we must realize our success story as stated at the DAVOS 2012.

This must open for Civil Society and public debate how to develop securely process of change move forward without great loses to Africans Wealth and Resources in development and progressiveness in meeting challenges of new business focus.

If men of Africa are defeated and they cant stand the heat, they must let knowledgeable women of Africa's Descent to take the front line to deal with Kagame, Museveni and Uhuru the smart way, the way they know how to fix such water melon men. It is because, these men are a disgrace to the greater African community.............

Judy Miriga
Diaspora Spokesperson
Executive Director
Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc.,
USA
http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com/

Davos 2012 - Africa - From Transition to Transformation

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26.01.2012

Africa -- From Transition to Transformation
As the region's political and economic evolution accelerates, what leadership and governance models will meet the people's expectations for the future?

Dimensions to be addressed:
- Strengthening governance systems
- Investing in commodity wealth long term
- Fostering stronger national and regional identities

• Alpha Condé, President of Guinea
• Jakaya M. Kikwete, President of Tanzania
• Raila Amolo Odinga, Prime Minister of Kenya
• Meles Zenawi, Prime Minister of Ethiopia
• Jacob G. Zuma, President of South Africa

Chaired by
• Gordon Brown, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (2007-2010) and Chair of World Economic Forum Global Issues Group

Africa 2012 - Grow Africa: Transforming African Agriculture

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With access to 60% of the world's potentially available crop land, Africa's agriculture sector could deliver growth and food security throughout the continent and beyond. How can leaders bring about a lasting transformation in African agriculture and food security? Zein Abdalla, Chief Executive Officer, PepsiCo Europe, Switzerland Fahad Bin Abdulrahman Bin Sulaiman Balghunaim, Minister of Agriculture of Saudi Arabia Dyborn Charlie Chibonga, Chief Executive Officer, National Smallholder Farmers' Association of Malawi (NASFAM), Malawi Jakaya M. Kikwete, President of Tanzania Berry J. Marttin, Member of the Executive Board, Rabobank Group, Netherlands Meles Zenawi, Prime Minister of Ethiopia

Davos 2012 - World Economic Brainstorming

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Davos 2012 - CNN Debate - Can Emerging Markets Deliver Global Growth

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29.01.2012

Can Emerging Markets Deliver Global Growth?
With Europe and the United States mired in prolonged austerity, can consumption and investment from emerging markets drive growth worldwide?

In partnership with the World Economic Forum, CNN hosts this debate on emerging economies.

• Ali Babacan, Deputy Prime Minister for Economic and Financial Affairs of Turkey
• Luciano Coutinho, President, Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES), Brazil
• Li Daokui, Director, Center for China in the World Economy (CCWE), People's Republic of China; Global Agenda Council on the International Monetary System
• Sunil Bharti Mittal, Chairman and Group Chief Executive Officer, Bharti Enterprises, India
• Stephen S. Roach, Senior Research Fellow, The Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, Yale University, USA
• Sir Martin Sorrell, Chief Executive Officer, WPP, United Kingdom

Moderated by
• John K. Defterios, Anchor and Emerging Markets Editor, CNN International, United Arab Emirates; Global Agenda Council on the Arab World

Davos 2012: Africa leaders urge co-operation

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Guinea's president said Africa's leaders needed to change the perception of their continent

Some of Africa's leaders have urged closer co-operation within the continent on energy and infrastructure projects to help its growth prospects.

Speaking at Davos, South Africa's President Jacob Zuma urged massive investment in infrastructure to promote trade within Africa.

Guinea's President Alpha Conde said there should be pan-African ministers for energy, infrastructure and trade.

He said he hoped the new ministries could be agreed by the African Union.

Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi agreed on the need for closer co-operation on infrastructure projects and said the planning and coordination body of the African Union, Nepad, was already working on this.

But he urged caution, warning it would and should be a long process.

"It took 50 years for the Europeans to come up with a single currency and it appears they went too fast for some of its members," Mr Zenawi said.

The leaders were taking part in a session called Africa: From Transition to Transformation, at the annual gathering of economic, business and political leaders at the ski resort of Davos in Switzerland.

Mr Zuma said infrastructure was at the heart of one of the key issues for the continent, namely how Africa leads itself.

"Africans must trade amongst themselves," he said.

"Intra-Africa trade is negligible," Kenya's Prime Minister Raila Odinga pointed out. "Europe trades more with itself that with the rest of the world."

The chair of the session, the former UK prime minister Gordon Brown, said the continent needed billions of dollars of investment in infrastructure, but red tape and cross-border problems were getting in the way.

Mr Zuma said those issues, or bottlenecks, were being addressed.

"How we open up borders for the free flow of people, or workers, as well as goods - that is being discussed as well as infrastructure," he said.

'New Africa'

Speaking at his first visit to the World Economic Forum, Guinea's Mr Conde, who described himself as the country's first democratic president after ten years of dictatorship, said: "If we want to move ahead we have to help ourselves. If we do that we can agree on producing our own energy, breaking down barriers to trade.

"The African leaders have to change our attitudes... not have money in banks abroad... to develop our own resources for our own people."

"We have a lot of faults, we are a bit selfish, fight for power rather than our people.

"I am here to show there is a new Africa... that we can be the continent of the 21st century."

For some of the leaders, the Indian economy, which developed rapidly thanks to developing its manufacturing sector, was a model African countries could follow.

"We are where India was in the early Nineties, we have the same size of population," said Ethiopia's Mr Zenawi. "That is our ambition, based on the growth of the past few years. It is not an idle ambition."

He said although the Millennium Development Goals - on relieving poverty and disease in the world's poorest nations - concentrated on advances in primary education, that would not be enough to create the skills necessary to transform economies.

"Africa is a natural destination for manufacturing," he said, adding that he hoped companies who relocated to Asia for cheap, efficient labor, would relocate to Africa, given the necessary investment in education and infrastructure.

However tackling the problem of corruption was still a "major issue", said Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete.

"The first thing to fight against corruption is transparency," he said, adding that his country was now publishing all mining contracts as part of a new mining code.

"The best guarantee for an investor is transparency."