President Yoweri Museveni is in Berlin where he delivered a key-note address at the German-African Business Day Forum. “I am here to show you that Uganda is the right place to go as far as investments are concerned and that, it is the right time to go,” he told the …
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By Dani Rodrik While economies have been hit by mood swings in financial markets, the only surprise is that we are surprised How quickly emerging marketsâ fortunes have turned. Not long ago, they were touted as the salvation of the world economy â the dynamic engines of growth that would …
Read More »Fight poverty; urbanise, integrate markets
By Independent Reporter World Bank Development Report 2009 diverts from tradition on how the poor can create and grow wealth Released on November 7, 2008, in Washington DC, the World Development Report 2009: Reshaping Economic Geography comes at a time of severe economic crisis, which history shows can cause nations …
Read More »`Modernising the markets’
By Robert B. Zoellick The New Multilateralism will rely on national leadership and cooperation. September and October are shaping up to be hard months in a precarious year. A meltdown in financial, credit, and housing markets. The continuing stress of high food and fuel prices and the dangers for poverty …
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