Some things are true of all successful countries. Predictability matters. Companies need to feel confident that their assets will not arbitrarily be seized, that they will be able to market and sell what they produce, and that they can bring a reasonable share of the profits back home. It is no less true that development can only take place (or adv

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si vous travaillez pour une entreprise basée dans le vieil « Occident », vous êtes probablement en train de louper des opportunités, à l’heure de la plus grande expansion jamais vue du marché de consommateurs à revenu intermédiaire, qui a lieu actuellement en Asie et en Afrique. D’autres entreprises, locales, sont déjà en train d’asseoir leur posit

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State weakness and failure along with civil wars will remain relatively common given the many factors that bring about intrastate conflict and violence. Somalia remains a failed state thirty years after it collapsed, while over the past decade Syria, Yemen, South Sudan, the Central African Republic, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo have all

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The bottom line is that Africa’s future, like its recent past, is likely to be uneven. There will be countries characterized by good governance and broadly shared economic growth, and those plagued by illegitimate autocrats, corruption, and violence. The biggest common challenge will come from an expanding population that will place extraordinary p

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