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Powering Africa: Q&A with Andrew M. Herscowitz

Andrew M Herscowitz Power Africa
August 06, 2014
A little over a year after President Obama announced the initiative to help “plug Africa into the grid of the global economy” by doubling the number of people on the continent with access to electricity, Power Africa is already a high-voltage operation.
 
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Bobby J. Pittman: Investing Without Borders in Africa

Bobby J Pittman Kupanda Capital
August 06, 2014
In Nemba, on the border between Rwanda and Burundi, is a one-stop border post backed by both governments and funded by the African Development Bank (AfDB).
 

From a historical perspective, this border is relatively new. It was put in by Europeans and divides two major urban areas, Kigali and Bujumbura, which are only about 100 miles apart.
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Jeffrey R. Immelt: Africa Is Ascending

Jeffrey R Immelt GE
August 04, 2014
The African growth story is real. Over the past decade and a half, Africa has emerged as the most promising growth region, exceeding world growth by an average of 2 percentage points a year. Growth prospects for the continent remain strong. According to the International Monetary Fund, growth in Africa will accelerate to 5.5 percent in 2014 from 4.9 percent in 2013. Continued — and lasting — growth depends on sustained investment and strategic development.
 
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Don Gips: A Long-Overdue Partnership With Africa

Don Gips Albright Stonebridge Group
August 01, 2014
A decade ago, American companies were wary to enter African markets, pointing to stagnated or falling growth, insecurity and complex political and commercial environments.
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Combating Terrorism, Illicit Trafficking Needs More Agile, Non-Regulatory Tools

Nate Olson Stimson Center
May 29, 2014
A global economy has empowered criminals and terrorists on a global scale, with growing consequences for both governments and the private sector. But U.S. exporters, in particular, can find opportunity in adversity. They stand to make big gains by helping pioneer innovative public-private solutions that complement traditional laws and regulations for confronting these complex global dynamics.
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China—A Manufacturing Chimera?

Scott Andes Brookings Institution
Mark Muro Brookings
May 28, 2014
Most mainstream commentators share a short lineup of suspects when they discuss the decline of American manufacturing. Popular culprits range from automation to skills shortages to offshoring. Yet China has increasingly become public enemy No. 1.
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Beyond the Pacific Ocean to Malaysia

May 21, 2014
Between our shared passion for mutual economic and societal growth, President Barack Obama’s visit to Malaysia in April was nothing short of a milestone.
His visit did offer him a chance to immerse himself to the local culture as he sampled goreng pisang (banana fritters) and visited famous attractions such as the National Mosque and Jalan Bukit Bintang.
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Global Trade—Expanding the Future of Flight

John G Rice GE
May 20, 2014
In April 2014 for the first time in nearly 50 years a sitting U.S. president visited Malaysia to broaden economic ties in the region. As always, he flew there aboard the blue and white Boeing 747 the world knows as “Air Force One.”
This iconic symbol of American aviation is powered by four of GE Aviation’s CF6 turbofan engines. What some people may not realize is that the same engine family is now driving the expansion of one of Asia’s fastest growing airline companies.
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Dealing with ‘Second Place’ in Global Economic Race

Bill Reinsch National Foreign Trade Council
April 11, 2014
“Certainly attitudes in the U.S. are going to have to change, because the U.S. will not permanently be the global leader the way things are going.”
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Five World Trade Game-Changers for 2014

Kati Suominen
January 09, 2014
The WTO’s trade facilitation deal reached in Bali in early December adds to the past three decades’ dramatic expansion in world trade owing to tariff liberalization, regional integration, lower transport costs, and spread of global supply chains. Now five technology game-changers will erase many of the pending impediments to globalization – yet also give rise to new business and policy challenges:
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