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Recognition for Carlos Lopes Work
Member of the International Commission of Experts on Financing for Development, Government of Spain & United Nations, Madrid & New York
Government of Spain & United Nations | Jul 2024
First Class Order of Zayed II, bestowed by the United Arab Emirates President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan
Abhu Dhabi Media Office | May 2024
Member of the G20 Task Force on a Global Mobilization Against Climate Change
Brazilian Government | Feb 2024
One of 100 most influential black personalities of the Lusophone World
Bantumen 100 Powerlist | Dec 2022
Confirmed by the United Nations Economic and Social Council as a member of the prestigious Committee for Development Policy for the period 2022 to 2024.
United Nations Economic and Social Council | Apr 2022
New Chair of the Board and Advisory Council of the African Climate Foundation
African Climate Foundation | Apr 2022
Appointed as > Foundational Fellow of the International Science Council
International Science Council | Mar 2022
Recognised by the African report as one of the 100 most influential Africans
The Africa Report | Oct 2019
Latest Blogs
L’Afrique ne reçoit que 23 % du financement climatique dont elle a besoin et paie le prix fort pour cela
Read MoreAfrica gets only 23% of the climate finance it needs – and pays too much for it
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Climate Diplomacy as Development Statecraft
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L’économie du développement à l’ère des bouleversements
Read MoreDevelopment Economics for an Age of Upheaval
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Cartographie : corriger la carte de l’Afrique, un enjeu économique et stratégique
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Carlos Lopes diz que fragilidade institucional alimenta instabilidade política na Guiné-Bissau
Alianza Ceibo é a vencedora do Prémio Gulbenkian para a Humanidade deste ano
African Inequality Review to fill in the gaps for policymakers
Fears mount that next UN chief will downgrade climate action
The United Nations Votes 164-1 to “Correct the Map” on Africa’s Size
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Apparently, Africa is the world’s debt problem. Meanwhile, OECD governments borrow ever more, absorbing global savings, while capital markets pour billions into AI valuations increasingly detached from plausible returns. Perhaps it’s time to ask who really has a debt problem—and
While Africa debates creating its own credit rating agency, we risk missing the bigger challenge: mobilising and deploying our own capital for structural transformation. The JSE dwarfs the continent’s other exchanges, yet its investment patterns hardly serve Africa’s industrial
Lopes stresses: “The problem, therefore, is not the passport of whoever issues the rating but the quality of the thermometer. What Africa needs is a far more sophisticated African risk-assessment framework, built on data and fundamentals, that can show where perceptions diverge
If a Goldman Sachs guru thinks so, we must read!
“African leaders have a great deal of agency over which path their people take,” writes @JaredCohen. “The countries that open themselves up, both to intracontinental trade and outside money, are the ones that will likely fare best.”
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/africa/two-africas?utm_campaign=tw&utm_content=AB+TEST&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
Lopes notes: “A more accurate map cannot single-handedly transform economies or erase deep structural inequalities, but it plays a necessary role in dismantling an inherited visual hierarchy. Africa does not need to be artificially enlarged or embellished; it simply nee
More than $900 billion: you need an army of young people, and yes, change the system to include algorithms and coding in primary school. And that is not that expensive. I have been preaching to African leaders to do just that.
South Korea is investing almost $900bn to rival China and the US as an AI superpower.
To ensure enough home-grown talent, primary school children are taught robotics and how to code.
Al Jazeera’s Jack Barton reports.
Some African leaders are aware of speed. We have to run like a cheetah.
Five months ago, an East African refinery was an idea at #AfricaWeBuild. Today, the US$16bn project broke ground in Lamu as Kenya's largest-ever FDI. What comes next matters most: skilled jobs, local business and futures closer to home.
Worth rereading, almost a decade later. In 2017, Aliko Dangote, Tony Elumelu and I argued that Africa’s energy challenge had to be understood as an opportunity for investment, innovation and structural transformation — with African business at its centre. Today, Dangote has
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