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Central Africa: Using What You Have to Get What You Want: Why Central African Countries Must Put Natural Capital Accounting at the Centre of Their Development
UNECA, 21 July 2021
By Nadia Ouedraogo, Issoufou Seidou, Abel Akara Ticha and Antonio Pedro* Read more »
United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (Addis Ababa)
Why Central Africa Must Centre Natural Resources for Development
The DRC-Africa Business Forum scheduled to be held in Kinshasa, Congo-DRC, in September 2021, will focus on bringing together stakeholders to discuss fostering the development of a battery, electric vehicle, and renewable energy industry value chain and market in Africa. In their write-up towards forum, authors Nadia Ouedraogo, Issoufou Seidou, Abel Akara Ticha and Antonio Pedro argue that it is time to escape the "paradox of Central Africa" where African countries extremely rich in natural resources needed for global development cannot finance their development agendas without recourse to expensive loans and aid with attached strings. The authors write that Central African countries should "literally count their blessings and transform their economies using those blessings" and "natural capital accounting (NCA) is one major way to do this". Read more.
Authors Nadia Ouedraogo, Issoufou Seidou, Abel Akara Ticha and Antonio Pedro argue that it is time to escape the "paradox of Central Africa" where African countries extremely rich in natural resources needed for global development cannot finance their development agendas without recourse to expensive loans and aid with attached strings.
In their write-up in preparation for DRC-Africa Business Forum scheduled to be held in Kinshasa, Congo-DRC, in September 2021, authors (clockwise) Nadia Ouedraogo, Issoufou Seidou, Abel Akara Ticha and Antonio Pedro argue "Central African countries should "literally count their blessings and transform their economies using those blessings," and putting Natural Capital Accounting (NCA) at the heart of their development is one major way to do this.
