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June 2009
This Business Action for Africa report consists of expert briefs by government, business, and NGO leaders on African growth and development, with policy recommendations on how businesses can manage and innovate through the global economic crisis.
The economic crisis, with its origins in developed countries, is hitting Africa hard and is underscoring the region's continued vulnerability. It also reminds us of the great progress Africa has been making in recent years, and what can be achieved amidst adversity. The world needs to emerge from this crisis with an economic system that is more sustainable and more equitable, one that not only better integrates African and other emerging nations into the global system, but that includes them in the architecture of international institutions, with a voice commensurate with their role in human development. Emerging from the crisis is also a clear opportunity for Africa to pioneer a low-carbon development model. As the recently launched Africa Progress Panel Annual Report points out, the economic, climate change and food security crises are all linked. They cannot be tackled separately.
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Start-Up Nation addresses the trillion-dollar question: How is it that Israel—a country of 7.1 million, only sixty years old, surrounded by enemies— produces more start-up companies than large, peaceful, and stable nations like Japan, China, India, Korea, Canada, and the UK? With the insights of geopolitical experts and investors, the authors examine this nation’s adversity-driven culture to answer this question and offer prescriptions for a global economy on the rebound.
In Forces of Fortune, Vali Nasr presents a paradigm-changing revelation that will transform the understanding of the Muslim world at large. He reveals that there is a vital but unseen rising force in the Islamic world—a new business-minded middle class—that is building a vibrant new Muslim world economy and that holds the key to winning the cold war against Iran and extremists.
In Cuba: What Everyone Needs to Know, Julia E. Sweig presents a remarkably accessible portrait of Cuba's unique place on the world stage over the past fifty years, including its internal politics, its often fraught relationship with the United States, and its shifting relationship with the global community.
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