The 7th Africa Resource Bank Meeting - 2009
Published on 5th January 2009
Theme: Interrogating Governance and Prosperity in Africa
Date: November 11 - 14, 2009
Is it true that Africa lacks transformative leaders to steer it to
prosperity? What is governance and who defines it? African leadership
has received a fair share of blame in the ongoing poverty and
governance challenges on the continent.
The economic and governance crisis in Africa has been
blamed on "forgive and forget policy" that many African founding
fathers adopted; the link between poverty, measurements and indexes
used as benchmarks to drive policy on the continent; the quest for
property rights and rule of law; tensions among ethnic groups over
control of national cakes"; the quest for indigenization of
African economy and the role of foreign aid among other reasons.
IREN invites scholars, politicians, policy makers, civil society
members, and business leaders among others to the 7th Africa
Resource Bank meeting to brainstorm on the theme: Interrogating
Governance and Prosperity in Africa?
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