The Citizen (Dar es Salaam)
25 June 2009
editorial
Africa has a new development roadmap that was unveiled early this month in Cape Town during this year's edition of the World Economic Forum (WEF).
The meeting, which was attended by over 800 delegates from 50 countries, including five African leaders, addressed the continent's short-term economic outlook as well as its longer-term development needs. The WEF forum principally sought practical solutions to foster better business practices and greater investment across the continent.
Many such roadmaps have previously been crafted and agreed upon by key players in the continent's development agenda yet Africa remains the world's poorest continent. Hopefully, tangible results will this time around be achieved from the implementation of the new development strategy.
The plan has been crafted in the context of the prevailing global recession and how Africa can weather its impact and come out as a strong economic and trading bloc. The general consensus of the forum, whose theme was 'Implications of the Global Economic Crisis for Africa', was that Africa has more to gain from the crisis than the losses it will incur.
This contention is based on the fact that Africa has abundant, but unexploited human and natural resources it can use to overcome the challenges it is facing. These could help Africa weather the global financial crisis and facilitate the continent's development.
Despite optimism on the ability to tackle the challenges, the forum had several reservations about the attainment of the desired results.
The gathering concluded that Africa was well positioned to return to a rapid growth path as long as governments improved governance and timely addressed structural shortcomings such as poor and inadequate infrastructure.
However, that will require governments to aggressively deliver on their commitments to market reforms, political accountability and investment in infrastructure and social services.
Indeed, Africa has many development opportunities, but the main problem has been its failure to fully take advantage of them.
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DESTROY OUR FAMILIES
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