PAST EVENTS
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Theme: Market Reforms and Policy Diffusion: A Comparative Analysis of Africa and Southeast Asia
Overview
By most accounts, over the past six decades, Asia has outperformed other regions of the world in terms of economic growth and industrial diversification. In particular, the impressive economic performance of East Asian countries like China, Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, and the Philippines continues to elicit debate in development policy circles on distilling and transferring the lessons from the region to other developing countries.
Theme: Innovative and Sustainable Financing in Post-COVID Africa: Effective Strategies for Resource Mobilization
Overview
With both domestic and external financing drying up in the aftermath of COVID-19, there is a need for fresh ideas and new strategies for financing sustainable development in Africa in the post-pandemic era – just like other regions of the world.
Date: March 2, 2022
Theme: Inclusive Digital Transformation for Economic Resilience in Africa: A Call to Action
Overview
The COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented, exogenous shock to the global economy, with major repercussions on production, consumption, and exchange activities.
Date: January 19-20, 2022
Theme: Resource Mobilization and Sub-National Fiscal Autonomy: A Development Finance Perspective.
Overview
The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their 169 sub-targets form the core of the 2030 Agenda of the United Nations. The SDGs balance the economic, social, and ecological dimensions of sustainable development, in addition to aligning the twin goals of fighting poverty and achieving sustainable development.
Date: November 23, 2021
Theme: Accelerating Decarbonization of Africa’s Energy System: A Blue Economy Perspective
Overview
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG 7) aims to “Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all.” Improving access to affordable and clean energy for all, while reducing GHG emissions and the carbon footprint of the energy sector, remains on the front burner of the global energy transition debate.
Theme: Harnessing PPPs to Optimize Public Service Delivery Post-Crisis: A Multi-Jurisdictional Perspective
Overview
Crises often trigger reinvention. John F. Kennedy once famously said, “When written in Chinese, the word crisis is composed of two characters – one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.”
Theme: The Clean Energy Transition and the COVID Economy: Navigating the SDGs
Overview
The case for the transition towards sustainable energy systems has never been stronger. Global economic rebalancing, environmental concerns, and improvements in energy efficiency due to technological innovations – all combined – continue to drive the gradual decarbonization of the global fuel mix.
Theme: COVID-19, International Private Capital, and Infrastructure-Led Recovery
Overview
Join our panel of experts as they discuss the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for international private capital and infrastructure-led recovery in the African context.
Theme: A Joe Biden Presidency: Implications for US-Africa Trade and Investment Ties
Overview
Join our panel of experts as they discuss the implications of the Biden Presidency for US-Africa trade and investment ties.
