The next session starts on March 8, 2021 Dear Distinguished Friends:  The Thunderbird School of Global Management, home to the world’s #1-ranked Master of Global Management (THE/ Wall Street Journal 2019), is offering a unique scholarship for Africans to attend its online Executive Master of Applied leadership & Management with a specialization in Public and Global Affairs. African students will pay a special tuition of $12,000 (compared to $33,000 for other students), representing a scholars ...

At its quarterly meeting on Dec. 10, the Millennium Challenge Corporation Board of Directors voted to make Nepal eligible for a compact, MCC’s large-scale investment program, and Cote d’Ivoire eligible for a smaller, Threshold Program. The Board also selected Mongolia and the Philippines as eligible for new compacts, and approved efforts to continue developing compacts with six previously selected countries. The Board cited Nepal’s consistent strong performance on MCC’s ...

President Obama repeated Sunday that he intends to change U.S. immigration law through executive action, over Republican leaders’ repeated requests to wait and dire warnings about the consequences of sidestepping Congress. “I’m going to do what I need to do,” Obama told CBS’ “Face the Nation,” in an interview taped on Friday. As he has said before, the president said he would prefer that reform legislation come through Congress, but that he has waited ...

There is a need for India and Republic of Côte d'Ivoire or Ivory Coast to boost their trade relationship and diversify their trade baskets and move up the value chain. This was stated by HE Daniel Kablan Duncan, Prime Minister of the Republic of Ivory Coast at a meeting organized by the Confederation of Indian Industry in New Delhi Tuesday. According to the Prime Minister, Ivory Coast exported largely primary articles such as farm produce and its imports co ...

Un nouveau rapport du Groupe de la Banque mondiale révèle que l'Afrique subsaharienne a enregistré le plus grand nombre de réformes de la réglementation des  affaires en 2013/14. Au cours de la dernière année, 74 pour cent des économies de la région ont amélioré la réglementation de leur environnement des affaires pour les entrepreneurs locaux.   Publié aujourd'hui, Doing Business 2015: ...

The October 2014 Africa’s Pulse released by The World Bank confirms that economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa continues to be strong.  The average growth in the region is projected to increase to 5.2 percent during 2015-16 (up from 4.6 percent in 2014) and to 5.3 percent in 2017.  Some markets and industries are looking to be more promising than others but certain regional challenges continue to present unknown variables. The Markets. Although growth in the region generally rem ...

The West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU), the common market for the eight countries using the CFA franc currency, will organize a commemorative ceremony marking its 20 years of existence. PANA reports that the celebrations will be held 20 October in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, under the theme "WAEMU, the ways of a solidarity development in West Africa". Official sources said the celebration would afford participants the opportunity to talk about the achievements in terms o ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Labor Department reported Tuesday that about 168 million children, aged 5 to 7, worked last year as laborers around the world, about half of them in hazardous jobs. The report on child labor in 140 countries called this an improvement from previous years. But while the decline is a move in the right direction, 10 percent of the world's children still are being forced to work rather than go to school, the department said. Labor Secretary Thomas Perez says the wor ...

La Côte d'Ivoire, premier producteur mondial de fèves de cacao, va mettre en place un fonds de 456 milliards FCFA (environ 912 millions USD) pour accroître la productivité de sa cacaoculture. Le Premier ministre ivoirien Daniel Kablan Duncan a fait cette annonce jeudi, à l'occasion de la première édition des Journées nationales du cacao autour du thème "Economie cacaoyère performante et durable pour une Côte ...

(Agence Ecofin) - La société Dekel Oil, filiale de l'israelien Rina Group, dispose désormais d’une usine de transformation d’huile de palme dans la localité d’Ayenouan. Cette infrastructure, fruit d’un investissement de plus de 10 milliards de francs cfa permettra la création de 500 emplois dans la localité et la transformation de 90 tonnes de noix de palme par heure. Pour Youval Rasin, qui préside le conseil d’a ...