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    African banks are making record profits whilst African companies are paying exorbitant interest rates on their loans. Is this an opportunity for European investors to invest in growth markets?

  • Why Africa’s Progress Will Bring More Migration—Not Less

    On May 18, 2018, I was invited for the second time to the Tolerance Talks in Fresach to take part in a discussion. The guiding question was: Were open borders a misunderstood liberal concept? Of course not—that was my short answer. But a different environment requires different thinking. The interconnected global society—with globalisation, digitalisation, connectivity,…

  • Why a stimulus from Africa can help Europe to overcome its own crises

    Why European companies have to be present in Africa, part 4: Being present in African countries helps to see again that an increasing division of labour, more free trade and more and more networked systems not only reduce poverty in Africa, but are also the foundation of our own prosperity.

  • Western Aid at the Crossroads

    “Yes, that’s like it is!” has always been the answer when putting forward to an aid practitioner the principle of permanent acceleration: When a certain type of project or program has become mainstream, right before results are visible, the aid community moves on to the next, much more ambitious and difficult task. The new book on Western…

  • Turning a crisis into an opportunity

    Cape Town is running out of water. DAY ZERO – the day when water reserves are at zero – is approaching. For three consecutive years rainfalls were less than normal. But it is not the missing rainfall, reasons for the water shortage in the urban agglomeration of 3,8 million people go deeper, says the Economist. It is a …