Calendário 2016/2017 (Apresentação dos Trabalhos de Investigação)

A apresentação dos TI rececionados até 10 de julho, serão apresentados no dia 13 julho 2017, a partir das 18h, na sala de aula utilizada durante o 2.º semestre.

Informações sobre a apresentação:

• A apresentação deverá rondar os 15/20 minutos;
• A apresentação poderá ser feita utilizando uma apresentação Powerpoint;
• A apresentação deverá demonstrar que o aluno conhece geográfica, económica, institucional e politicamente o país escolhido e que é capaz de apresentar e justificar propostas de desenvolvimento económico e social para o país escolhido.

The Makings of an African Century - Where African and European Ambitions Meet

A strong, stable and prosperous Africa is not only vital for Africans, it is essential for Europe. Cooperation between the two continents is hardly new and a lot of progress has been made, but Africa and Europe can and must go much further together.

Too much of the African continent is still plagued by a lack of decent basic infrastructures, slow growth, extreme poverty, pandemics, droughts, civil wars, terrorism and poor governance.

But Africa also has abundant resources – its most precious being its young, rapidly-growing population. Hand in hand with Africa’s youth, African and EU leaders must develop transformative joint solutions to make the most of their partnership and adapt it to today’s realities.

Uruguai - Síntese País [AICEP]

Electrifying Africa: how to make Europe’s contribution count

Executive summary

Electrification is one of sub-Saharan Africa’s most pressing socio-economic challenges. Less than a third of the sub-Saharan population has access to electricity, and around 600,000 premature deaths are caused each year by household air pollution resulting from the use of polluting fuels for cooking and lighting.

Solving this issue is a fundamental prerequisite for unleashing sub-Saharan Africa’s economic potential. Given the magnitude of the challenge, only a joint effort involving sub-Saharan African countries and international public and private parties would pave the way to a solution.

Sub-Saharan African countries should be the first to move. They should reform the governance of their energy sectors, in particular by reforming their generally inefficient state-owned electricity utilities, and by phasing-out market-distorting energy subsidies. Without such reforms, international investment will never scale-up across sub-Saharan Africa.

International public and private parties must play a key role in facilitating sub-Saharan Africa’s energy transformation, particularly the electrification of rural areas, where three-fifths of the sub-Saharan African population lives. International public support is particularly important to crowd-in international private investors, most notably through innovative public-private partnerships.

China and the United States are already engaged in electrification in sub-Saharan Africa. China has substantially invested in large-scale electricity projects, while the US has put in place a comprehensive initiative – Power Africa – to scale-up electrification, particularly in rural areas, through public-private partnerships.

Europe has, instead, created a myriad of fragmented initiatives to promote electrification in sub-Saharan Africa, limiting their potential leverage in crowding-in private investment and in stimulating energy sector reforms in sub-Saharan African countries. This sub-optimal situation should be changed by coordinating the initiatives of European institutions and EU countries through a unique platform. We propose such a platform: the EU Electrify Africa Hotspot.

http://bruegel.org/reader/Electrifying_Africa?utm_source=Bruegel+Updates&utm_campaign=899f319a12-PUBLICATION+ALERT+%7C+Electrifying+Africa&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_eb026b984a-899f319a12-278058649&mc_cid=899f319a12&mc_eid=602461abd0#

São Tomé e Príncipe - Ficha de Mercado [AICEP]

Trabalhos 2016/2017

Sofia Margarida Rodrigues dos Santos	Angola
Decleusia Lukene Domingos da Silva	Brasil [Entregue versão papel]
Marcos André Silva Coelho Ferreira	Califórnia
Edsany Sandrine Dos Santos Pereira	Costa do Marfim
Baunor Abreu Mendes Vieira	Guiné Bissau
Ruth da Conceição Garcia da Silva	Guiné Equatorial
Maria Massano Gomes	Massachusets
Nuno Miguel Oliveira Figueira	Portugal [Apresentado 13 jul 2017]
Fábio Alexandre Nascimento Matias	São Tomé e Príncipe
Olga Tulba	Uruguai
Elizabeth Contreiras Campos	Ilhas Maurícias
Vander Manuel Sequeira Mesquita	China
Filipina Germano Alberto da Silva -
Luís António Tambá Nhaquê -

The Africa Competitiveness Report 2017: Addressing Africa’s Demographic Dividend

A careful and thorough analysis of economic indicators and latest trends, this report - published every two years - highlights some significant progress made on a number of crucial competitiveness dimensions over the past decade. The authors provide some specific policy recommendations to speed up job creation for the ever increasing young population entering the job market.

«The 2017 edition of The Africa Competitiveness Report comes out at a challenging time for the continent. In recent years, growth in several African countries has been subdued after more than a decade of solid expansion. The slowdown is largely due to the protracted low commodity prices as well as the reduced growth in emerging markets such as China, and in advanced economies. However, this situation has also given impetus to reforms and economic diversification. The strong economic performance of a number of African countries demonstrates Africa’s resilience and brings optimism about Africa’s future growth prospects.» [Preface]

http://ecdpm.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f3098f0aa17cc73cc4c42bc9b&id=0a679ab234&e=5adf557c89

Matching means to priorities: Challenges for EU-Africa relations in 2017

The year 2017 opens up new opportunities for EU-Africa relations, whose ‘strategic importance’ has been recently reiterated by HR/VP Federica Mogherini. In 2016, ongoing challenges such as financial difficulties, migration and terrorism have marked a shift in the way the two continents relate to one another.

The 2017 edition or our Challenges Paper explores some of the political challenges for the year 2017, adopting issues of financing for development and EU-Africa cooperation as a guideline, and exploring ways to match means to emerging priorities.

Ahead of the 2017 Challenges Paper, MEP Judith Sargentini, Lars-Erik Lundin from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute and Uzo Madu from ‘What’s in it for Africa’ shared their views on critical debates and challenges in 2017.

http://ecdpm.org/publications/matching-means-to-priorities/