Recent German and international policy initiatives such as the Compact with Africa or the Marshall Plan with Africa all have had a strong focus on promoting (foreign) private investment for job creation. The development success of these initiatives hinges on their ability to create decent work...

Presenter: Professor Ilan Alon (Director of the China Center of Rollins College, Visiting Scholar and Asia fellow at Harvard) Discussant: Professor Christoph Lattemann (Professor for Information Management and Corporate Governance Educatis University, Switzerland, and Harvard Kennedy School...

Against the background of Africa’s increased strategic significance as a 900-million people continent, with a vast resource export potential and slowly transforming socio-political scene, the lecture will critically review South Africa’s rise as the dominant economic power of the continent....