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Supporting young people to acquire professional skills through technical and vocational education and training (TVET) is a key element of successful development in African countries. TVET systems are essential for addressing skills gaps, promoting inclusive growth, and enhancing productivity in...
Supporting young people to acquire professional skills through technical and vocational education and training (TVET) is a key element of successful development in African countries. TVET systems are essential for addressing skills gaps, promoting inclusive growth, and enhancing productivity in...
Supporting young people to acquire professional skills through technical and vocational education and training (TVET) is a key element of successful development in African countries. TVET systems are essential for addressing skills gaps, promoting inclusive growth, and enhancing productivity in...
Africa faces a well-documented infrastructure conundrum. Despite high demand for projects and available capital, most initiatives stumble at the planning stage, while differing regulations, political environments, and standards across the continent continue to create friction and slow infrastructure development. Addressing...
Supporting young people to acquire professional skills through technical and vocational education and training (TVET) is a key element of successful development in African countries. TVET systems are essential for addressing skills gaps, promoting inclusive growth, and enhancing productivity in...
International aid” has long been considered shorthand for “development cooperation.” Development assistance from wealthier nations to low- and middle-income countries—important and lifesaving as some of these efforts are—was mistakenly taken to represent the entire sprawling, complex ecosystem of actors, institutions,...
Africa’s high borrowing costs are often framed as an unavoidable reflection of macroeconomic risk. But as discussions at the UNDP–ACET Africa Credit Ratings Initiative webinar on January 7, 2026, made clear, the problem runs deeper and is more solvable than...
Former Spanish Foreign Minister Arancha González Laya announced her role as co-chair of the new Future of Development Cooperation Coalition, an independent initiative with a mandate to reimagine development cooperation at a moment of declining foreign aid budgets, an increasingly...
What does it take to shape policy from the frontlines of African research? As Director of Research, Policy, and Programs at the African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET), Dr. Emmanuel Owusu-Sekyere leads one of the continent’s most vibrant knowledge ecosystems,...
The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) offers a significant opportunity for Kenya to leverage technology to drive sustainable economic growth and strengthen regional integration.
A series on analyzing the progress African countries are making toward transforming their economies, as measured by the African Transformation Index (ATI), within the context of ACET’s “Growth with DEPTH” framework. It draws insights from a multi-country case study on...
Over the past two decades, Ethiopia has achieved something few African countries have: maintaining a remarkable economic growth rate of 8 percent per year, accompanied by significant increases in per capita GDP, poverty reduction, and improved access to education, healthcare,...
The pledging session for the African Development Fund’s 17th replenishment (ADF-17) has concluded in London with historic results. The Fund secured a record $11 billion from 43 partners, the largest in its history, and representing a 23% increase over ADF-16’s...
Tunisia ranks first among the 30 countries tracked on the African Transformation Index, reflecting the relative maturity of its economic model in comparison with other African countries. Since 2000, the Tunisian economy has shown resilience in the face of major...
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