Foresight Africa: Priorities for 2018

The Africa Growth Initiative at Brookings has just released a major report titled "Foresight Africa: Top Priorities for the Continent in 2018".

It contains the following chapters:

--Unleashing Africa's Inner Strengths: Institutions, Policies and Champions.
--Sustainable Financing for Economic Development: Mobilizing Africa's Resources.
--Broadening the Benefits of Growth: No One Left Behind.
--Rethinking Africa's Structural Transformation: The Rise of New Industries.
--Harnessing Africa's Digital Potential: New Tools for a New Age.
--Reassessing Africa's Global Partnerships: Approaches for Engaging the New World Order.

China-Africa Cooperation: Shifting from Commodities to Digital Innovation

Sage Journals' International Area Studies Review published in 2017 a study titled "China-Africa Cooperation: Struggling Commodities and the Silver-lining in the Innovation Economy" by Vincent Ibonye, Nigerian Institute of International Affairs.

The author notes the downturn in commodity prices and slowing purchases of commodities by China as it shifts to a domestic-driven economic growth model. He suggests one way to mitigate the damage to African commodity exporters is to encourage China to make digital innovation an important part of its cooperation with Africa.