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Africa Renewal August 2015

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Factory workers package products at Decorplast, a manufacturer and regional exporter of injectionmoulded plastic goods in Ghana. Panos/ Nyani Quarmyne

Using trade to boost Africa’s industrialization

trade Industrialization

A view of streets and high rise apartment buildings in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Panos/Sven Torfinn

The changing face of Ethiopia

Ethiopia development

Haddis Tadesse, middle, with Ethiopian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Tedros Adhanom, left, and Bill Gates.

Ethiopia’s development is mostly people-driven

Workers take measurements while laying the tarmac on a new road being built near Arusha, Tanzania. Africa needs funds for such development projects. Panos/Frederic Courbet

Funding the planet’s future

funds financing for development

A partial view of Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance Dam under construction. Reuters/T. Negeri

Can Africa fund its own growth?

Ethiopia sustainable development

Cables and wires in storage at Reroy Cables. The Ghanaian company augmented its capital with a bank loan secured with the help of the International Finance Corporation, an affiliate of the World Bank. Panos/Nyani Quarmyne

Borrowing responsibly: Africa’s debt challenge

debt sustainable development

Health workers clean hospital scrubs and protective gear at the Island Clinic for Ebola treatment centre in Monrovia, Liberia, during the 2014 Ebola outbreak. USAID/Morgana Wingard

Billions now required to save depleted healthcare systems

sustainable development health

Solar panels being cleaned at the Ain Beni Mathar Integrated Combined Cycle Thermo-Solar Power Plant in Morocco. World Bank/Dana Smillie

New bond issue set to help Africa go ‘green’

green bond sustainable development

Wu Hongbo, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Development and the Secretary-General of the Financing for Development Conference. UN Photo/Loey Felipe

For development finance, there is no one-size-fits-all solution

financing for development

A table banking session in Samburu, Kenya. DPPS

Loans to women = smart economics

loans sustainable development

Designer Kiki Cardow adjusting a display at her boutique in Lagos, Nigeria. Panos/ Andrew Esiebo

Think beyond microfinance when talking about businesswomen

A MicroEnsure agent talks to microfinance clients about microinsurance at a group meeting in Nairobi, Kenya. Alamy/David Dorey

Microfinance: Good for the poor?

Cashew nut processing and production factory in Sotria B Sarl, Banfora, Burkina Faso. Alamy/Joerg Boethling

Cashing in on the cashew nuts boom

cashew nut Côte d’Ivoire

Pali Lehohla, Statistician-General of Statistics South Africa. ITU/ R. Farrell

African statistics have come of age

A shopper buys Snow beer at a supermarket in Yichang city, central Chinas Hubei province. AP Images /Yi chang

Africans also investing in China

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