World Economic Forum (WEF) on Africa

While it is true that less than 50% of Africans enjoy access to modern healthcare facilities at present, and that Africa suffers from one-quarter of the world's disease burden, you can't deny the potential that is inherent in the region. In 2015, a World Economic Forum report noted that seven of the world's ten ...

Bongiwe Beja is the General Manager at Silulo Ulutho Technologies (Silulo), a fast growing technology and education social enterprise which has significant impact in the emerging, township and rural communities across South Africa. Bongiwe works directly with Schwab Foundation Leader and CEO of ...

It is essential that the infrastructure that will enable effective utilisation of Africa's talent pool is established down now. ... According to the World Economic Forum's Future of Jobs report, two-thirds of companies surveyed believe that future workforce planning and change management are reasonably high or very high ...

Mauritius has enjoyed numerous accolades within the business community of late. In 2018 it was ranked 25th out of 190 countries in the World Bank Ease of Doing Business report, taking first place in sub-Saharan Africa. It also came out as top African country in the World Economic Forum's 2017-18 Global ...

Illegal," Mugabe told South Africa's SABC News Thursday in his first televised interviews since his resignation in November 2017. Mnangagwa succeeded ... Mnangagwa also attended the World Economic Forum's annual conference in Davos, Switzerland, in January of this year. Mugabe meanwhile called ...

Prior to joining ONE, Moyo had over an 18 year period served at the AfDB, the United Nations (UN) and the World Bank. A much sought after thought leader and speaker at international development forums, she is also a member of the Global Agenda Council (Africa) of the World Economic Forum (WEF).

This is according to the latest Global Gender Gap Report released by the World Economic Forum, which found that, globally, gender parity is shifting ... Companies in the Middle East and Africa are already grappling with a lack of skilled employees, and over the next decade this STEM skills shortage will just ...

Johannesburg- South Africa ranked 113th out of 114 countries in the Effective Energy Transitions Index 2018, a report by the World Economic Forum which ... The WEF's Energy Transition Index found relatively difficult conditions for the renewable energy industry with South Africa scoring 35% for policy ...

Code for Africa has built an online tool that allows users to explore the gender pay gap between men and women in Africa. You can explore the tool here. The tool uses data contained in the Global Gender Gap report for 2017‚ compiled by the World Economic Forum‚ which captures the magnitude of ...

The face of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos is changing. In the last decade, the number of delegates from countries like Germany and Britain has fallen, while those from China have increased by 283% and Russia by 57%. One of the big hitters at this year's Davos was Narendra Modi, who ...

The recent rising determination for change in women's rights, equality and justice as demonstrated by global women movement and campaigns such as the #MeToo and #TimesUp reveals that there is more work to be done. Findings from the World Economic Forum's 2017 Global Gender Gap Report ...

The world's 10 youngest populations are in Africa. Niger, with its average age of 14.8 tops this list, according to the World Economic Forum, citing data from the United Nations. According to the World Bank, demographics could result in 11 to 15 percent gross domestic product growth in the continent ...

From limited land rights to the enduring expectation that they perform the majority of unpaid household labor, women in Africa face major economic, legal, and cultural barriers to advancement. According to the World Economic Forum's Gender Gap Report, Sub-Saharan Africa has closed the disparity in ...

The World Economic Forum for 2018 may have come and gone, but the question that will linger remains what lessons African leaders took out of it. The summit in Davos had 'Creating a Shared Future in a Fractured World' as its theme, and the issue of climate change was on the front burner once more.

The World Economic Forum is the ideal place to advocate for an “African Agenda”. The new President of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa, made that message clear when he tweeted: “The new Zimbabwe is open for business”. According to a press release issued by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) ...

Windhoek — The Roads Authority (RA) has confirmed that Namibia was once again accorded the top position of having the best roads in Africa by the World Economic Forum (WEF). The results were released via the WEF's Global Competitiveness Report for 2017/18, which tracks the performance of ...

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa during a Bloomberg Television interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 24, 2018. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa during a Bloomberg Television interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan.

Motheo Construction Group is 'heartened' by the finding in 'The Future of Infrastructure' report launched by integrated infrastructure delivery company AECOM at the 2018 World Economic Forum in Davos in January that adequate investment in infrastructure projects is crucial to national prosperity.

Overall, the last 10 years have been a lost decade for African governance. In 2008, the Index calculated the African average as equivalent to 115th in the world (India), actually better than now. Not surprisingly, the World Economic Forum has noted: “On average, sub-Saharan Africa's competitiveness has ...