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July 2018 ISSUE N° 454 WWW.ICPUBLICATIONS.COM
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COVER STORY AFRICA’S BLUE ECONOMY
BRIEFS 4 News from around Africa
COVER STORY 10 Africa’s blue economy:
An overlooked opportunity?
INTERVIEW 22 Abebe Selassie, Director, Africa Department, IMF
EGYPT-ETHIOPIA 28 Tensions ease over Ethiopia’s dam
TUTU FELLOWS LEADERSHIP COLUMN 32 Mandela at 100: Pause to reflect on African leadership
INTERVIEW 34 Carlos Lopes, Former Executive Secretary, UNECA
FINANCE 36 How well are Africa’s sovereign wealth funds managed?
EXPERT VIEW 40 How development banks can ‘shift the trillions’
DEVELOPMENT 42 What can Africa learn from South Korea?
TUTU FELLOWS LEADERSHIP COLUMN 45 The circular economy
GERMANY-AFRICA 48 Germany in Africa
COUNTRYFILE 54 Cyril needs time to turn things round
AFRICAN BUSINESS VIEW 56 Should development trump democracy?
INTERVIEW 60 Pierre Guislain, Vice President Private Sector, Infrastructure and Industrialisation, AfDB
EXPERT VIEW 61 Growth of agritech calls for rapid policy response
HUMAN RESOURCES 62 How to retain top talent
INTERVIEW 70 Robert Ochola, Director of Strategy and Innovation, Afreximbank
LAST WORD 74 Aid transparency
