Job security no longer means fighting to keep the same job for 30 years, it means keeping ourselves marketable. Just as the market searches for ways to do things better, so will tomorrow’s workers-by gaining new knowledge and skills-seek to better themselves. The quest for efficiency-whether with machines or foreigners –will continue to create more than it destroys. [Read More]

To this day, the West uses 'democratic conditionalities', as well as a host of other conditionalities, to impose on Africa an economic market based model of growth and a political model of governance that is foreign to African condition and disrespectful of African indigenous traditions. But that is the challenge Africa must face. It must dig deep into its own culture and spirituality to bring forth the energy of the ancestors to stand up to those who have disempowered Africa. [Read More]

Trade is also projected to increase as a result of opportunities for enhancement of regional trade under EPAs as well as increased market penetration in the EU market. [Read More]

In order to put trade at the service of development- the future is certainly about regional economic integration. The EPAS will reinforce this process and provide assistance to address supply side constraints [Read More]