Africa: Taxing the Tech Giants

Editor's Note: "How should we determine the corporate tax a big tech company should pay in each country where they operate? There are many ways that this could be calculated, but… Read more »

Africa: State of Tax Justice 2020

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Africa: The Future's Not in Plastics

"The petrochemical industry is already facing record-low plastic feedstock prices as a result of massive overcapacity. And yet, it plans to expand supply for virgin plastics use by… Read more »

Africa: Not Pessimism or Optimism but Possibilism

"The evidence—gathered both from our own long experience of working with African governments and from the work of others—is that there are in fact cadres of thoughtful,… Read more »

Africa: Fossil Fuel Viability to Decline Sharply

"Falling demand and rising investment risk is likely to slash the value of oil, gas and coal reserves by nearly two thirds, sending shock waves through the global economy by… Read more »

Africa: Remote Learning With African Storybooks

Two years ago, when AfricaFocus first profiled the African Storybook project, it had available, for free reading and download, 903 storybooks in 136 different languages, including… Read more »

Africa: Contesting Health and Workers' Rights

The global Covid-19 pandemic has made clear that the right to health is not just an aspirational value. Suddenly, it's a matter of desperate self-interest for everyone, except,… Read more »

Africa: Upping Its Stake in Multi-Player Field

The Russia-Africa summit in Sochi, Russia in late October 2019 prompted a flurry of news coverage, highlighting such headline figures as sales agreements amounting to more than $12… Read more »

Africa: Africa/Global - Editor´s Commentaries, 2019

Just before this year's global climate summit opened in Madrid recently, researchers announced that emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil fuels will hit a record high in 2019.… Read more »

Africa: Continental Unity and Industrialization?

"If it unfolds appropriately, the AfCFTA (African Continental Free Trade Area) could facilitate the emergence of regional value chains that allow the continent as a whole to move… Read more »

Africa: Targeting Corporate Shell Games

"Across the world, citizens who want their governments to implement policies to reduce inequalities, address climate change and looming ecological disaster, provide better public… Read more »

Africa: Tax Avoidance 101

Aircastle Ltd., a Connecticut-based global company specialized in leasing airplanes, is not alone among large American companies lowering their taxes through creative accounting,… Read more »

Africa: #MauritiusLeaks Reveals Tax Dodges

"Based on a cache of 200,000 confidential records from the Mauritius office of the Bermuda-based offshore law firm Conyers Dill & Pearman, the investigation reveals how a… Read more »

Africa: Agribusiness Vs. Agroecology

"It is not surprising, of course, that those with financial interests in the current input-intensive systems are responding to growing calls for agroecology with attacks on its… Read more »

Africa: New Horizon for Off-Grid Solar

With their most dramatic success in Kenya and other East African countries, off-grid solar home systems are expanding rapidly, reaching more consumers and extending beyond basic… Read more »

Africa: Victory for Lamu Residents Against Coal Giant

"On Wednesday 26th June, Kenya's National Environment Tribunal (NET) made a landmark ruling that set aside the license granted to Amu Power Company Ltd by the National Environment… Read more »

Africa: World Bank Ramps Up Attack On Small Farmers

"Enabling the Business of Agriculture," promoted by the World Bank, and now enhanced with a new sub-indicator on land policy, is presented as a way to advance agricultural… Read more »

Africa: Cutting the Costs On Remittances

"Some people use their savings to start a business, while others turn to family and friends to borrow cash. But Ismail Ahmed's case was more unusual. He launched WorldRemit, a… Read more »

Africa: Fighting Tax Evasion and Tax Avoidance

The UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), in its annual Economic Report on Africa, focused on financing development in Africa, highlighted the urgency to curb what it termed… Read more »

Africa: Why Mining Is Hard to Tax

"In Africa as elsewhere in the world, while energy companies might be somewhat undertaxed, mining companies typically are greatly under-taxed. Indeed, it is only a slight… Read more »

Mauritius: Cyber-Island Strategy

"Mauritius remains unique in its region in having identified ICT as a fifth pillar of its economy alongside sugar, textiles, tourism and financial services. However, it not… Read more »

Nigeria: Delta Oil And Human Rights

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