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Read our newest PEGNet Policy Brief by @julianhinz, @Sonali_Chowdhry, @Jacobs_AnnaK and Rainer Thiele on "Potential Economic Benefits of the African Continental Free Trade Area for Africa and the EU": pegnet.ifw-kiel.de/policy-briefs/… #AfCFTA @kielinstitute @unibielefeld

Join us this Thursday as @christianvolpem and Mariana Ferreira discuss investment promotion agencies and how they can spur development in Latin America! For more details and to subscribe to our newsletter, visit our website 3dseminar.net.

Julian Hinz's report is available here: ifw-kiel.de/experts/ifw/ju… and Brice Adou's report here: repository.uneca.org/handle/10855/4…

Join us for the next session of the 3D seminar on Thursday, Nov 24, at 3:00 pm (UTC+1) with @julianhinz (Uni Bielefeld/IfW Kiel) & Brice Adou (UNECA) on The African Continental Free Trade Agreement – Boon or Bane for the Continent?

🖥️Can the African Continental Free Trade Area (#AfCFTA) live up to its promises? If you are also wondering about this question, join us on Thursday for the Digital Development Dialogue @TristanKohl @PEGNetKiel @wiwiunigoe @fuchs_andreas @LanglotzSarah @AnnaMinasy @IDOS_research

Amazing ten days of learning, interaction and networking at the #summerschool organized by @UniveLomeTg and @PEGNetKiel of Kiel Institute! We are grateful to @VolkswagenSt for the funding! We thank @ECA_OFFICIAL, the official partner of the event! @FraukeSteglich

Laura Naliaka @ECA_OFFICIAL @ATPC2 presented on the role of #valuechains in the context of #AfCFTA, which served as the basis for discussions on trade integration in Africa.

@UniveLomeTg @kielinstitute @ECA_OFFICIAL @VolkswagenSt @DedeGafa @FraukeSteglich @SawedaTasie set the scene in her keynote speech by presenting what we already know about agricultural transformation and GVC participation in Africa and by highlighting fields for future research.

We successfully opened our summer school on agricultural transformation and #GVC participation in West Africa! This summer school is jointly organized by @UniveLomeTg & @kielinstitute in cooperation with @ECA_OFFICIAL and kindly funded by @VolkswagenSt @DedeGafa @FraukeSteglich

#ThrowbackThursday to our 2022 PEGNet conference in Kampala. Here, PEGNet's Rainer Thiele is opening the first onsite PEGNet Conference since 2019. It was great to finally interact with development researchers and practioners again. @EPRC_official

#beyondgrowth? In our session jointly organized with @giz_gmbh, Lebohang Liepollo Pheko @Liepollo9 from @WEAll_Alliance, Joseluis Samaniego, from @cepal_onu @eclac_un, and Christian Felber @felber_c discuss alternative models for economic development @giz_gmbh #FutureForum

All good things come to an end... Having successfully finished our fruitful PEGNet Conference 2022 in Kampala, we are on our way back home. Thank you Uganda for the great hospitality you have provided us with. We shall be back! #PEGNet2022

@FrancMwesigye has highlighted key challenges confronting MSMEs in Uganda [and Africa) with electricity - both access and cost. Businesses in manufacturing are challenged more by electricity issues compared to retail or wholesale. #PEGNet2022

Wrapping up our PEGNet Conference 2022 by discussing how to ensure our mission: Effective cooperation between research, policy and development cooperation practice! @kielinstitute @EPRC_official @giz_gmbh @KfW_FZ_int @IDOS_research @AfDB_Group

Discussing the interdependencies of economic policy analysis and religion in sub-saharan africa with our Junior #keynotespeaker @amma_panin at our PEGNet Conference in Kampala, Uganda. @EPRC_official

We've kicked off the second day of the #PEGNet2022 conference on "addressing fragility and conflict in developing countries" in #Kampala with James Macbeth @giz_uganda country director & Amma Panin (Université Catholique de Louvain) @PEGNetKiel

Today's last session is ongoing, touching on refugee hosting. Prof Philip Verwip talks of observable impact on Ugandan hosts, with some hosts transitioning from subsistence farming to commercial as a result of refugees demand for their crop #PEGNet2022 @PEGNetKiel

🔊Last Session for today 🔊 Roundtable Discussion on „hosting #refugees in #conflict prone regions“ with @ph_verwimp, Roselyn Davina Vusia, Tony Odokonyero and Paul Lakuma