Posts Tagged ‘Rwanda’
SWEACC: Seminar the 27th of January regarding the East-African emerging market.
Thursday, January 20th, 2011
The Tanzanian Ambassador Muhammed Mazale and the Rwandan Ambassador Jaqcueline Mukangira during the SWEACC inauguration in Nov 2010.
The newly created Swedish – East African Chamber of Commerce (SWEACC) will be holding it’s first seminar during 2011 regarding the endless business possibilities regarding the emerging market of East-Africa. The overall objective is to give the participants, the business people and entrepreneurs concrete down to earth information of importance for future business ventures in the region.
The newly appointed Ambassador to Tanzania, Mr Mzale, will make his first public speech in Sweden on this occasion.
Information regarding the EAC, the union and customs will be addressed. The inner market including 130 million people and the endless possibilities regarding technical development, mobile phone systems, relations with EU and Sweden. Swedfund priorities investments in infrastructure, ICT, health, as well as How to find partners in EAC.
The mutual interst now is “trade not aid”!
Tags: Ambassador, EU, Exportrådet, ICT; EAC, Kenya, Rwanda, Svensk Handel, SWEACC seminar, Swedfund, Tanzania, Uganda
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The Lion Kings?
Saturday, January 8th, 2011
The average African economy will outpace its Asian counterpart
MUCH has been written about the rise of the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India and China) and the shift in economic power eastward as Asia outruns the rest of the world. But the surprising success story of the past decade lies elsewhere. An analysis by The Economist finds that over the ten years to 2010, no fewer than six of the world’s ten fastest-growing economies were in sub-Saharan Africa (see table).
The only BRIC country to make the top ten was China, in second place behind Angola. The other five African sprinters were Nigeria, Ethiopia, Chad, Mozambique and Rwanda, all with annual growth rates of around 8% or more. During the two decades to 2000 only one African economy (Uganda) made the top ten, against nine from Asia. On IMF forecasts Africa will grab seven of the top ten places over the next five years (our ranking excludes countries with a population of less than 10m as well as Iraq and Afghanistan, which could both rebound strongly in the years ahead).
Tags: Africa, BRIC, FDP growth, Lion Kings, Rwanda, The Economist, Uganda
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“Rwanda’s road to progress” – by Josh Ruxin.
Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010
One of the persons that made a great and lasting impact on me when I was in Kigali, is the very humble and at the same time very energetic entrepreneur and professor from Columbia University, Mr Josh Ruxin. Josh has worked and lived with his family in the Capital of Rwanda, Kigali, for a few years now and this article is an update on what is going on in Rwanda at this very moment. Here is his take on Rwanda which last year was the number one reformer in the world, and last month, the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report had Rwanda leading its East African counterparts in economic innovation, financial markets, and infrastructure. The photo is taken by Kit Cody at Rwanda Works and shows how fiber optic cable is being installed all over the country. Josh’s the Founder and Director of the Millenium Villages in Rwanda, he’s also the Founder of Rwanda Works, as well as the Access Project. Here’s his last article from the New York Times named “Rwanda’s road to progress”.
Tags: Josh Ruxin, Kigali, New York Times, Rwanda
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Africa’s Potential’s upcoming Lectures & Seminars.
Friday, April 23rd, 2010
Want to know more what Africa’s Potential’s vision & goals are and the current projects? Curious to find out what’s going on in the Rwanda incubator project and the making of the Swedish-East African Chambers of Commerce? Below is a list of a few lectures and seminars Africa’s Potential will be attending and holding during the months to come.
Tags: Africa, east, East-African entrepreneurship program, entrepreneurs, foundation, HQ Bank, incubator, lectures, Oriflame, Rework, Rwanda, seminars, Södertörns Högskola, Stockholm School of Economics, Swedish trade council, Tällberg
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The Africa’s Potential lectures.
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
During February 2010 the Founder & CEO of Africa’s Potential, Emre Gürler, held a lecture for the business students (Civilekonomprogrammet) at the Linnaeus University‘s School of Management and Economics.
The lecture was a mix between how to get inspired to climb out of your comfort zone and to actually dare to take a look outside the security barriers that we in the Western world have created. We have to do this in order to see the vast opportunities that exist in for example the East-African region. A large reason why the world is waking up slowly is due to the fact of the African stereotypes and negative massmedia portrayal of the African continent. Or rather, the lack of focus on the success stories of the continent. There has to be a more balanced massmedia picture of the African continent in order to make the general public aware of the vast opportunities that actually exist. What is the first thing that comes into your mind when you hear the word Africa? Is it positive or negative and why is that?
Tags: African, business incubator, emerging, Emre Gürler, entrepreneurs, Kigali, lecture, market, Rwanda, Swedish, university
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“Why Africa welcomes the Chinese” – the President of Rwanda, Paul Kagame.
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009
“Africa must attract broad investment, not rely on handouts, if we are to sustain development”
There is a debate among geopolitical and economic commentators about the merits of Chinese versus western involvement with Africa. One argument is that Chinese investment is exploitative and undermines the development of democracy and human rights on the continent. Others view the matter in terms of competition, arguing that China is encroaching on the decades-long monopoly of the west over Africa’s natural resources.
Neither of these viewpoints addresses the core issues. First, major players in global investment and development are discussing Africa without engaging its people as equal partners. Second, Africans are not seen to be proactive in setting their own priorities and terms of engagement.
Tags: Africa's Potential, Aid, Chinese, development, handouts, Kagame, Paul, Rwanda, sustain, the World Bank
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Rwanda: Africa’s New High-Tech HotSpot.
Thursday, November 26th, 2009
The Vision 2020 in Rwanda is something that almost all the entrepreneurs that I met in Kigali was keen on re-telling to me. Leapfrogging development is a term which is often mentioned in the developing world and the world hasn’t seen a real strong evidence/case, not until Rwanda emerged on the global development map!
Tags: global development, High-tech, Kinyarwanda, Leapfrogging, parliament., Paul Kagamen, RDB, reconciliation, Rwanda, The Vision 2020, USP
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Africa’s Potential in Rwanda.
Friday, October 16th, 2009
Africa’s Potentials Emre Gürler has been invited to take part of a Swedish delegation, consisting of representatives from the Swedish Trade Council (Exportrådet), the Swedish institute of international affairs (Utrikespolitiska institutet) as well as the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise (Svenskt Näringsliv).
Tags: Africa, Africa's Potential, Emre Gürler, Entrepreneurship, Facebook, Kigali, post-war, Rwanda, sustainability, sustainable society, svenska exportrådet, svenskt näringsliv, Swedish institute of international affairs, Swedish trade council, the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise, utrikespolitiska institutet
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Recent posts from our blog…- Top 100 ! January 25, 2012The Swedish career-magazine, Shortcut, each and every year rank the top 100 Swedes under the age of 40, that has made a significant change, or have made a great entreprenurial, political, economical and/or social change during 2011. A person that really stands out from the crowd with other words It’s with great joy that this […]
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