Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
As Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), diaspora remittances, and other kinds of financial flows eclipse the volume of foreign aid to Africa, the nature of development financing must evolve. The Africa Program’s Investments work analyzes how public and private investment flows can better support Africa’s economic resilience. We aim to provide the knowledge base to reorient foreign aid and external financial flows to support Africa’s long-term aspirations for economic transformation.
Sign up for our newsletter Back to main pageThis project examines the implications for Africa of the changing external strategies of major global actors. It outlines concrete policy recommendations towards mutually beneficial outcomes that advance international cooperation.
While Macron’s pivot has created new political space for France-Africa engagement on more equal footing, the French president’s vision of mutual aid and reciprocal partnerships between France and African countries remains unfulfilled.
The success of the new U.S. investment strategy may ultimately depend on how a bill in Congress addresses these key components.
This analysis draws out the implications of the UK’s 2021 integrated review for African countries and recommends next steps for African and other international stakeholders to navigate the UK’s overhauled external relations strategy.
The summit outcomes are unlikely to match the EU’s rhetoric on a new partnership of equals. But the two continents are starting to realize that they need each other.
A closer look at African summitry offers a better understanding of the motives and strategies underlying African leaders’ involvement in these diplomatic exercises and shows how engaging African leaders in these summits could be done in ways that align more with their interests.
This project engages with global discourse on infrastructure and public services in Africa. The essay series will foster discussion on the continent’s specific investment needs to position it on a path of prosperity.
This project maps out areas in which Africa’s external partners can reorient their foreign assistance to position the continent’s public health as an economic sector that contributes to growth, jobs creation, and the achievement of health security.