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African leaders urged to invest in jobs, infrastructure and protecting development gains

From: News Release – African Press Organization (APO)

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African leaders urged to invest in jobs, infrastructure and protecting development gains

The title for this year’s African Economic Conference will be “Inclusive and Sustainable Development in an Age of Economic Uncertainty”

KIGALI, Rwanda, October 31, 2012/ — Opening an unprecedented gathering of experts here, present and former African Heads of State urged business, community and political leaders to help turn the continent’s impressive growth into economic opportunities for ordinary citizens.

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Rwandan President Paul Kagame, inaugurating the country’s first African Economic Conference (http://www.africaneconomicconference.org), said, “In Rwanda, we understand that politics and economics go hand in hand and we have made a conscious and deliberate choice of inclusive development based on our political reality. By and large, they have produced positive results. Growth has been consistent and poverty levels considerably reduced by 12 per cent from 56.9 per cent to 44 per cent in five years.”

Organized each year by the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), the African Development Bank (AfDB) (http://www.afdb.org) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the title for this year’s African Economic Conference will be “Inclusive and Sustainable Development in an Age of Economic Uncertainty”.

Africa has weathered the economic crisis and achieved considerable advances in the area of poverty reduction and human development. However, the region is still home to high levels of poverty, hunger, unemployment and inequality in political voice and access to resources.

“Over the first decade of this century, with the exception of 2008, Africa experienced exceptional economic performance and growth in GDP per capita,” said Helen Clark, the UNDP Administrator. “But there is a way to go in many countries to translate that growth into higher human development. Deliberate policy measures and targeted investments are needed to make growth not just fast, but also inclusive and sustainable.”

Participants on the opening day said that the key issue for the continent was to shift from commodity-based to innovative, diversified economies at a time when foreign direct investment, aid and remittances were drying up.

Donald Kaberuka, the President of the African Development Bank, underscored the need for long-term solutions. He suggested that Africa’s growth should include doing research on solutions on how African countries could internally finance their development, and learning from what has gone wrong globally to redesign their policies.

Africa must invest in quality education in order to stop children from inheriting poverty from generation to generation, said Kaberuka.

“This is how you stop children from inheriting living conditions of debt, and once you do that you have stopped the transmission of poverty,” he told an opening session.

“Inclusive development must include equity, equality, popular participation not only in politics but also in the economy itself and then of course there must be transparency, and all those things that make the governed believe and have confidence in those who govern them,” added the Former President of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo.

Participants at the conference also said that protecting communities from food and fuel price volatility, climate change and political instability required putting in place bold measures for social protection, including insurance, credit and employment schemes.

The African Economic Conference is organized as a series of open thematic debates, combined with sessions that review policy research from across the continent. The conference provides a uniquely open forum for political leaders, academics and emerging talent from the continent to discuss solutions to Africa’s pressing development issues.

Distributed by the African Press Organization on behalf of the African Development Bank.

The full event programme is available at: http:// www.africaneconomicconference.org.

About the African Economic Conference (http://www.africaneconomicconference.org): The main objective of the Conference is to provide a platform for experts on Africa, both within and outside the continent, to reflect and discussnew directions for growth policy on the continent in order to determine the best approaches to attain the Millennium Development Goals, achieve the objectives of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD), and accelerate Africa’s sustainable development. For more information: http://www.africaneconomicconference.org.

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United Nations Development Programme: Nausicaa Habimana Kantengwa: nausicaa.kantengwa@undp.org Cell: +250 (0) 783 010 571

African Development Bank: Magatte Wade, m.wade@afdb.org +216.98.343.734

Economic Commission for Africa: Yinka Adeyemi, yadeyemi@uneca.org +251 911 201798

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Kenya: The government should impose stringent regulations on MPESA operators to work within official working hours and not late in the evening to put robbers and criminals on check

Commentary By Leo Odera Omolo.

It is arguably correct to say that the MPESA money transactions in this county has revolutionized and increased the quickest way of transacting businesses, especially in rural area, market places shopping and trading centers where there are no established commercial banks in operations.

The same could be said of urban centers, small town and even in big towns and cities. This business revolution, however, has brought the big risk along with. A day hardly passed smoothly without an incident of attacks involving robberies at these outlets where the ordinary Wananchi have been accessing money transacting their businesses with a lot of easiness.

These well coordinate attacks hatched by criminals elements have resulted in serious bodily injuries and loss of precious lives of the innocent Kenyans due to the current widespread insecurity being experienced all over the places..

It is therefore my contention that the licensing authorities tasked with the responsibility of regulating the MPESA operations in this country should introduce the stringent rule and regulation that would compel these, money outlet to operate within the normal working hours along with other commercial banks.

By this I meant, the should only be allowed to open for business at about 9 AM and close at 5.PM and not to extend working hours up to 8.M in the darkness. And strictly only those operating inside supermarkets shopping malls wand business hours.

However, it has been noted that in market places located in rural area, shopping and trading center MPESA outlet have become the easiest targets for people with heinous criminal intention, especially those who have been driven out of major town cities the hawk-eyed

Kenyan policemen.

Many suspicious characters have been sighted milling around and mingling with customers with members of the public outside MPESA outlets while making surveillance at the same time hatching secret plans for attacking the agents. And thereby depriving them f their daily earnings.

Even some of the criminal elements are known to have followed those who withdrew reasonable size of money at the outlets into their rural homes by the nightfall. The purpose of those night raids are obvious; To deprived the traders of their hard earned monies.

These night raids against MPESA agents and traders have resulted in the loss of lives. The loses could be avoided if the MPESA regulating authorities and the Safaricom and other phone service providing firms could work out a joint strategy and agreed on a working formula in which the time for business transactions at these money outlets could be regulated and strictly allowed to operate only within the official working hours, and not late in the evenings.

According to media reports from many parts of Kenya, the MPESA operators and agents are prone to attacks as they are targeted by the hardcore criminal elements using sophisticated weapons.. In Nyanza Province, Migori town is leading n the incidents of attacks at the MPESA outlets, perhaps this is due to the town’s proximity to the common borders between Kenya and Tanzania.

Othre towns ad small trading centers which are prone to such attacks include Awendo, Rongo, odi-Kopany, Homa-Bay, Oyugis, Siaya, Ugunja, Bondo, Yala, Ahero, Muhoroni, Ranen, Kendu-Bay, Sondu, Ahero..

Homa-Bay comes second after Migori in the increased crimes-wave, which has also seen many night watchmen deployed to guard the shops in the main street have reportedly been hacked t0 death by criminal gangs.

Similar incident have been reported from many towns in the Coast Province, Nyanza, Nakuru, and western Province. The statistics of the attacks are increasing by daily, and this is why there is urgent need to have the business hours of the MPESA operators.

These planned and well executed attack are putting nation’s economy into total ruin, and the time for such attacks to be put to an abrupt end..

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Video : What Can Economists Know?

From: Yona Maro

This YouTube video from an economic conference has Nancy Cartwright, (Professor of Philosophy, London School of Economics and Political Science) discussing randomized trials in development economics, She is concerned with the generality of results from such trials.


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Capital Access – To a New Level

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Washington, DC – The PanAfrican Entrepreneurs Conference takes place in Houston, TX on November 15-18, 2012 at the Four Seasons Hotel. Its mission is to create an arena for entrepreneurs and business people within the Black Diaspora to come meet and further business connections. Also, to suggest policy improvement and issue awareness that will benefit the status of black entrepreneurs internationally.

The importance of Capital Access is at the forefront of the agenda. Several speakers will address this issue and provide some traditional and innovative ideas.

Prosper Adabla – New Capital Holdings, Accra, Ghana

Innovative Financing in the Global Market
Over the years NCH has developed and fine-tuned its flagship product of sourcing funds from international sources for its clients. The company’s successes in this area are unsurpassed. NCH has developed relationships with international financial organizations for the sole purpose of assisting businesses in Africa access funds from them. Its clientele includes multinational companies, small and medium scale enterprises and brokerage firms.

NCH is also actively engaged in helping governments of African countries source funds from international credit, insurance and guarantee agencies of foreign governments under sovereign guaranty repayment regimes. Funds under this program are borrowed for developmental projects such as schools, hospitals, roads, mass real estate and other improvement infrastructure.

Wanda F. Felton – Vice Chair and First Vice President, Export Import Bank, Washington, DC

Ex-Im Bank in Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa is a priority region for Ex-Im Bank. Since 1999, Ex-Im Bank has supported over $5 billion in transactions throughout sub-Saharan Africa. For the fiscal year ending September 30, 2011, Ex-Im Bank supported 177 transactions totaling $1.4 billion in 20 sub-Saharan countries. Click here to view our Country Limitation Schedule to see where Ex-Im Bank can support you.

If you are a lender or U.S. exporter: The Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) provides U.S. exporters with the financing tools they need to successfully compete for business in Africa. Ex-Im Bank’s products and initiatives help U.S. exporters in all regions of Africa, including high-risk and emerging markets.

Robert H. Hines & Jeffrey D. Powell – The Capital Maverick Group, Houston, TX

Investing – Foreign Capital Investing & Advisory
We facilitate the connection between reputable domestic project operators and foreign investors utilizing the EB-5 Visa program. We identify project operators, review and qualify the projects and facilitate the investment and immigration process through our Regional Center affiliation. In addition, we work with direct foreign investors seeking to diversify their global investment portfolios by investing in US real estate and US businesses.

Lending – Domestic Capital Lending & Advisory
We facilitate the connection between issuers and users of domestic commercial real estate capital. Our primary objective is to provide the most reliable and efficient means of sourcing and placing the debt for our domestic commercial real estate clients. Funding deals $2 million and above.

Houston Urban Investment Fund (Impact Investing)
The Houston Urban Investment Fund was created to bring capital and capacity to Houston, TX. Our unique business model marries capital and opportunity to assist local stakeholders operating in Houston urban districts.

The Fund is currently raising private and public capital and will close in November 2013 with a target goal of $25 million.

Afsane Jetha – Director & Portfolio Manager, Africa Private Equity, Duet Group, London (Invited)

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World Bank Report: Doing Business 2013

From: Yona Maro

Worldwide, 108 economies implemented 201 regulatory reforms in 2011/12 making it easier to do business as measured by Doing Business.

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Africa Challenged to Harness Natural Resources for Inclusive Growth

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Africa Challenged to Harness Natural Resources for Inclusive Growth

The 8th African Development Forum (ADF VIII) opened in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on Monday

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, October 23, 2012/ — The 8th African Development Forum (ADF VIII) opened in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on Monday with a call on African countries to harness their huge natural resources for the benefit of their growing populations.

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Addressing participants at the opening ceremony, the African Development Bank (AfDB) (http://www.afdb.org) Group Operations Vice President, Aly Abou-Sabba, noted that Africa was now in a position where it should be using its natural resources for accelerated wealth creation to bring about socio-economic transformation.

Speaking on behalf of AfDB President Donald Kaberuka, Mr. Abou-Sabaa said that Africa is home to some of the world’s largest deposits of oil and gas, gold reserves and strategic minerals, such as uranium, cobalt and bauxite, and has an undeniable comparative advantage in natural resources.

“The challenge for the continent is how to govern and harness this rich pool of natural resources to achieve a broad-based growth,” he said.

Mr. Abou-Sabaa outlined three critical factors that must be in place for the continent to shift from being “resource cursed” to “resource blessed”: 1) Promoting responsible investment for broad-based growth; 2) Strengthening governance for enhanced transparency and accountability; and 3) Building capable and responsive states for human development and economic effectiveness.

Speaking earlier, the new Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), Carlos Lopes, noted that Africa accounts for three quarters of the world’s platinum supply, half of the diamond and chromium, and one fifth of global gold deposits.

The continent is also a major supplier of cobalt, copper, iron and coal, and home to 60 per cent of the world’s uncultivated arable land.

Despite such wealth, Africa neither consumes its minerals nor adds value to them before exporting them. It has high potential to feed the growing global population, but can hardly feed it population because of underdeveloped agriculture that results in low crop yields, he said.

Mr. Lopes recounted how outsiders continue to reap enormous benefits from Africa’s resources, citing the case of Glenocore, a Swiss company that mainly operates in the Democratic Republic of Congo and whose assets are worth more than those of the country where it operates. Glenocore is currently negotiating a deal with another Swiss company, Xstrata, to “create a $70 billion dollar mining powerhouse,” he said.

“Of the 20 major mining companies currently operating in Africa, only Anglo-Gold Ashanti is home-grown,” Mr. Lopes said.

All the inputs of the mining companies are imported, he added, and nearly all outputs are exported without processing; while the most important tasks are performed by expatriate labour.

According to Mr. Lopes, illegal fishing costs Africa US $629 million annually, which can cover the infrastructure funding gap of a country like Mozambique. The revenue lost from illegal fishing on the waters of Somalia alone could have funded the country’s UN coordinated development programme for 2011.

The last 10 years have witnessed a phenomenal rise in commodity prices in which African countries benefitted the least, he said, noting that average net profits for the top 10 global mining companies grew by 156 per cent in 2010, whereas the take for governments grew by only 60 per cent, most of which were accounted for by Australia and Canada.

Illicit financial flows from Africa, mainly from the extractive sector, also amounted to $50 billion a year, he told participants.

Given the state of affairs, Mr. Lopes said it is imperative that African countries exercise greater strategic control over their natural resources.

For her part, the African Union Commission Chair, Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, raised several questions concerning Africa’s wealth and development paradox that the forum should consider, in addition to formulating ways and means of tackling them.

“Africa is today, among the fastest-growing regions in the world. How come the growth is not generating enough jobs for our people, especially the youth? How come the jobs our people have are low-level and poorly paid?” she said.

In his intervention, Ethiopia’s Industry Minister, Mekonnen Manyazewal, suggested that Africa needed a developmental state and transformational leadership to effectively govern and harness its natural resources.

The Forum, which runs from October 23-25, 2012, is on the theme, “Governing and Harnessing Natural Resources for Africa’s Development”.

The ADF, a UNECA flagship biennial event, is convened in collaboration with the AU Commission, AfDB and other key partners to establish an African-driven development agenda that reflects consensus and leads to specific programmes for implementation. It is attended by a large number of participants including Heads of State and Government, African member state policy-makers, development partners, other United Nations agencies, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations (IGOs/NGOs), academia, practitioners, civil society organizations (CSOs), the private sector, eminent policy and opinion leaders and other concerned stakeholders.

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World Bank Grant to Mobilize Kenya’s Diaspora for Development…False or Fiction ???

From: Judy Miriga

Folks,

Could these be the signs of Mitt Romney’s Foreign Policy to Africa……???

Kenya is lost and is truly headed the wrong way with Vision 2030 of the Emerging MarketPlace Headquartered at Boston in Massachusetts…….. Holding Uhuru’s interest connection at heart selling Equity, Lake Victoria & Migingo Business Empire Plus Plus, killing and taking everything from Lamu, Tana River, Mombasa to Lake Victoria. Things are in shambles. The two Principles in the Coalition Government, Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila, having promoted Uhuru to the peek to have his way without borders, to acquire all these Public Lands, control Finances and Security with facility and utilities empire of Public Wealth and Resources falsely, why are they crying foul….???

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KENYA: AWENDO D.C WAS RIGHT WITH CLAIMS OF RAMPANT CANE POACHING AND CUT-THROAT SCRAMBLING FOR RAW MATERIALS BY THE THREE SUGAR MILLS IN THE REGION.

Writes Leo Odera Omolo in Awendo Town.

The Awendo D.C was very right when he made a claim that the Ndhiwa based Sukari Industries was involved in excessive cane poaching from Sony Sugar Company cane growing zones.

The concern of the Awendo D.C. Arthur Mugira is a matter of utmost urgency concern of all the stakeholders in the region because the “poaching of cane has become the source of insecurity in the region.

First of all, it is the sole responsibility of the D.C of a given area of his or her administrative jurisdiction as the chairman of the District Security Committee to ensure that peace and tranquility is prevailing and a matter of paramount importance. And law and order is maintained at all costs.

The D.C. had accused the Ndhiwa based Sukari Industries Limited that the company is poaching and harvesting cane crops from farmers contracted by SonySugar company during night times.

The relevant facts, which must be taken into account in order to crown up this argument , is the fact that the Sukari Industries went to into operations and productions late last year after the completion of its establishment, installations of its crushing machineries, stores and administrative bocks and all other facilities and accessories.

The Mill, which is located near Oria market right on the border of Ndhiwa an Uriri districts has continue harvesting cane and milling despite the fact that it had no nucleus estate farm of its own on which it could grow its own cane for the raw materials and maintained continuous steady supplies for its mill

It is therefore depending entirely on harvesting raw cane crops from out growers inside both Ndhiwa and Awendo, Rongo and Uriri district, which it has no material/financial inputs on, but which were developed with the resources of SonySugar company with impunity.

So far the Sukari Industries has not seen it fit to develop its own cane by way for financing the out growers within its own cane growing zones. And it has continue milling using cane harvested at night from the out growers farms which were developed with funds made available to the farmers through land preparation loans and cane development programs by SonySugar, running into millions of shillings.

Prior to the establishment of the Sukari Industries, the Awendo based SonySugar had contracted close to 27,000 small scale cane farmers within its sugar cane growing zones and similar number of non-contracted farmers. But even these non-contracted out growers farmers had benefited from some kind of farm input from Sony Sugar such a cane seedlings, fertilizers and transportation costs. The only sensible way for the SonySugar to recover its money that it had used in loans to the farmers for the company to be allowed to harvest, crush and sell the made sugar to the consumers. If the same cane is harvested and taken into another mill, which had not played part in its development, then SonySugar would not be in legal position to recover its money through the deductions of the proceeds from the cane bills so that it could replenish its books of accounts and the money could be consider as well as lost.

The argument, therefore require the simplest and most elementary arithmetic. In this context, the concerns expressed by the Awendo D.C. Arthur Mugira are genuine and represented the true picture of the happenings on the ground.

To be more honest, both Sukari Industries and the nearby Trans-Mara Sugar mills were established in total defiance and flagrant violation of the rule and regulations set by the Kenya Sugar Board, which is tasked with the responsibility of regulating the industry in this country. It explicitly stipulates that any investor or investors intending to establish a new white sugar processing mill must ensure that such a factory is established in area which is not less than 40 kilometers apart from the existing sugar mill.

The potential investor is also required to disclose its source of cane supplies to keep the mill running and strictly not to encroach into another mill’s cane growing zone.

Due to allegedly corruptive deals, the two mills were established against the entire existing rule governing the industry and sugar production in this country, and hence the current cut-throat competition in scrambling for raw cane being witnessed in this region.

Mr Lalji Divecha, the general manager of the Sukari Industries must accept these facts as presented above and should not fly out of the truth. His remarks that the D.C.’s complaints were baseless only amounted to “excessive arrogance on his part.”

I have been informed that the KSB is just about to disburse close to Khs 300 million plus to the

Sukari Industries for the company to advance its out growers farmers with advance loan for land preparation, cultivation and development of cane crops in its own zones. I hope the money will be utilized to the letters and that there will be no repetition of the old Madhvani case in Kwale District some years ago. In Kwale, the money which was given to the company as an advance for the resuscitation of the then run-down Ramisi Sugar Company had gone to the dogs an the investors disappeared in the thin air not to be heard off up to-date.

One thing which the Sukari Industries must come out clean is the question of its importation of close to 35 unqualified workers from India and Pakistani, though this is the common practices in this country where the investor happens to be Asians. In all the sugar mills owned by Asians, the indignant Kenyan workers are getting row deals.

Kenyans are only used for the manual work as laborers, whereas all the staff jobs goes to Indian and Pakistanis workers imported from foreign countries. In the case of African workers, they are only engaged as casual workers, and never issued with the letters of employment by the employers. Mandatory deductions such as PAYE, NSSF and NHIF are things of the past. The employees have no workmen’s compensation arrangement.

Tax-evasion is some of the normal features in the sugar mills. Both the Labor Ministry inspectorate teams and the sugar workers unions appeared to have been compromised and only singing and dancing to the tones of the employers, who appeared to have taken the government for ransom immigration ministry include. Most of the Indian and Pakistani workers imported into this country to work in the sugar mills are not sufficiently qualified to hold the jobs they are engaged on.

Whereas the SonySugarhas employed close to 2500 Kenyans in its establishment who are making important contributions to this country’s economy through the mandatory salary deductions for NSSF, NHIF, PAYE and other important national funds and KRA. Moreover, the SonySugar is using its money and grades repairing the roads and building bridges within its sugar cane producing zones, the Sukari Industries and Trans-Mara Sugar Companies are making good use of these roads at the expense of SonySugar.

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Kenya: Banks and Financial Institutions Warned on Fake Money coming in circulation as we move to 2013 Elections

From: amenya gibson

Dear People,

I small signal on washy washy money or Fake Money have been detected in some of major towns especially rural areas in Mt Kenya Region,Coastal,Rift Valley,Busia, which is believed that these monies could have a negative effect on our economy especially managing fiscal inflation as we move towards highly charged 2013 elections.

All financials instituion have been put on high alert to be extra vigilant when collecting cash from customers and unique banking behavior.

Mpesa transactions also have been put on alert and all those who wont have registered SIM Cards wont be allowed to transact in December.

Is Barclays Bank planning to leave Kenya or what?


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Rethinking the Role of the State in Finance

From: Yona Maro

Finance matters, both when it functions well and when it functions poorly. Supported by robust policies and systems, finance works quietly in the background, contributing to economic growth and poverty reduction. However, impaired by poor sector policies, unsound markets, and imprudent institutions, finance can lay the foundation for financial crises, destabilizing economies, hindering economic growth, and jeopardizing hard-won development gains among the most vulnerable.

The report benchmarks financial institutions and markets around the world, recognizing the diversity of modern financial systems. In its analysis of the state’s role in finance, the report seeks to avoid simplistic, ideological views, instead aiming to develop a more nuanced approach to financial sector policy based on a synthesis of new data, research, and operational experiences.

The report emphasizes that the state has a crucial role in the financial sector – it needs to provide strong prudential supervision, ensure healthy competition, and enhance financial infrastructure. Regarding more direct interventions, such as state ownership of banks, the report presents new evidence that state involvement can help in mitigating adverse effects of a crisis. However, the report cautions that over longer periods, direct state involvement can have important negative effects on the financial sector and the economy.

Therefore, as crisis conditions recede, the evidence suggests that it is advisable for governments to shift from direct to indirect interventions.

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AMERICAN ECONOMY BEGAN A CATASTROPHIC DESECENT.

From: Nyambok, Thomas

AMERICAN ECONOMY BEGAN A CATASTROPHIC DESECENT,AS THE EARLY IN 2008,THE TRUE SCOPE OF THE DEVASTATION BECOME CRYSTAL CLEAR,AS THE STOCK MARKET COLLAPSED, THE CREDIT MARKETS DRIED UP, BANKS MELTED DOWN, AND UNEMPLOYMENT BEGAN TO SOARE.

My name is Tom Nyambok.

And, I want to thank you all as Americans, the world and Virginians as I stand for the better for our people to have the knowledge of how we come into this kind of devastation. This is not because of president Obama, the economy devastation started fifty years ago and we Americans we are trying to make it work with in our system.

I want to thank you all for taking part in this very important discussion.

As you know, in 2006, while nobody was looking neither the Federal Reserve nor the Treasury not congress or even the white House.

The American economy began a catastrophic descent, as the early stages of the real estate crisis started taking shape.

Three years later, in 2008, the true scope of the devastation become crystal clear, as the stock market collapsed, the credit markets dried up, banks melted down, and unemployment began to soar.

America was thrust into a recession and a period of national misery not seen since the Great Depression Every Citizen in this country felt the stress, the fear, and the uncertainty that came with not knowing how long the malaise would last and how deep the damage would be, I know that most people be come to know when things are bad as the reach people retrieve some companies to China.

Where the representatives’ in Washington, Whose sole responsibility was to prevent this kind of a meltdown, incapable of protecting us from this crisis?

Why did the leaders of America allow our country to sink into this financial abyss? Where were their voices of reason? What does the future hold for our great nation? And how can you and our fellow Americans on Main Street, stay safe from what is a head now?

I’m going to try to give my opinion and suggestions that would help us to go out of fifty years catastrophic. And you are going to meet a true voice of reason that this country needs right now. We should not blame the sitting president in the office now and nobody can make it if the House can’t come to gather, this mistakes that has been there can’t be corrected with in four years alone this problems started fifty years ago. Americans needs to vote those who can stand to compromise, all members in the House must compromise otherwise America will become a weak supper power soon.

In 2006, while the stork market was surging and real estate prices were soaring and unheralded team of economists were working tirelessly to spread the word about the impending dangers that threatened our great nation. I remember in 2007 the maverick economists sounded the alarm about a chain reaction of crashes that were to come in real estate, the stock market, private debt, and consumer spending.

The maverick economists laid out a clear and straight forward message but the House on the floor, Congress, Capital Hill are to be blamed not the President nor the White House but the blames goes to the representatives’. If the powers that be” had paid heed to the economists, then lives of all Americans would have been better.

The devastation is still being felt to this day. Sensing that the worst was still to come, the economists returned in 2009 to pen the follow up book.”After

shock.”And this time, Americans were willing to listen to the unfortunate truth about our nation’s financial health.

You need the real story and what steps to take to stay safe before a second, and much more destructive economic meltdown, possibly strikes the United States. Once inflation hits 10 percent, all life insurance policies will be susceptible to very big losses due to their heavy exposure to long-term bonds, commercial real estate, and stocks.

Some insurance companies could even crumble, in my opinion, it does not make good financial sense to own whole life insurance and if you do, you may be able to take out a lump-sum payment now, because that will be much more valuable to you to properly invest now, than when inflation really kicks in.

Please check to see your policy details you may have, you can also focus on term life insurance instead, since it’s much cheaper, it seems people are putting of retirement until later and later days in life.

And with Social Security, Medicare, and the unreported tens of trillions of dollars in future costs pressing down on our economy, the safety nets many have relied on, may not be there in the years a head and for those who may still be working and do not have enough saved up for a comfortable retirement, if we have a serious spike in unemployment.

Given the pullback in income growth as well as other economic factors like inflation and a weakened dollar, the retirement age would now have to be raised to 73 for average Americans just to maintain the same standard of living as in the 1940’s. Since the average life expectancy is currently about78, millions will now have to work until they drop dead, instead of enjoying their golden years.

Washington, Capital Hill, and Congress, Representatives on the floor must work to gather with the sitting president, now for better America, Washington seems incapable of having an adult conversation on the entitlement issues so I personally see Americans working later and later into their lives, because they have no other choice. However, jobs will be tight, especially for people over 55 years old.

In few months those seeking job security during the coming crisis, the necessities sector is the place to be, this is composed primarily of healthcare, education, utilities, basic food, basic clothing and government services, unfortunately, these aren’t the highest paying jobs.

Whether people are still employed or living off their investments, they are worried about government taxing away more of their money.

As the sitting president with his administration have been working harder to make changes but the Capital Hill couldn’t compromise, However, the sitting president will now use his power to have changes made with in Treasury where some adjustments will prevail soon for better America.

I’d quickly recommend looking into estate planning, regardless of your net worth. Because for tax reasons, giving gift to your children and grandchildren can be beneficial or you can get creative here by selling assets to buy gold to gift to your heirs hard. I’m not a ‘’Gold Bug’’ by any means, But I know what investments are right for different conditions.

As alternative to carrying physical gold, you can buy it from a gold depository, with a depository, you have legal ownership of the gold, but doesn’t have to take physical possession. You can take it anytime you like to though. I have seen many billionaires and hedge funds begin to pour more of their wealth into gold over the last few years.

Gold mining stocks, this has been out of stock for a long time.

This is one of the mainstreams why I’m running for the Governor for Virginia to strengthen the mining of minerals from Africa, my administration will prepare to join their counter parts in Africa for mining using professional Machines, Equipments for mining.

I was born in Kenya from Africa where I become to be in politics from 1963 when we got our independence, I took it very seriously till today, my politics to let human beings to be more equal If I will be elected as the Governor for Virginia I will go for trade with Africa as a continent instead of China taking part while we are a sleep only to beg china for more funds to incite for wars, we shall work well with our sitting president of America and in 2017 we shall have Mrs. R. Clinton who will be the first woman president in the United States of America, now she is qualified to be the next president of the United States of America.

God is so great, you can see how God works, president Obama will serve America better and better, because he stand straight for America and by truth for the better world, he was chosen by our Heavenly Father to make big changes and to let Americans and the world come together to know where the weaknesses has been hidden by some immoral human beings, see wall street, see dead voters in red states, see the American jobs are sold to China, see the behavior of Capital Hill, see the behavior of the wall street, see the behavior of Congress, see the behaviors of the parties, see the behaviors of the millionaires, see the behaviors of the Governors from Red States, why are this people behaving like this? America was found by one God. If president Obama is elected for the second term we all shall see the difference in economic growth and job creation.

Lastly, Arizona will get rains if they can change their Governor and the senator the some to Texas, Although in Virginia If I will be elected as Governor, we shall fight till we find the Dead people who are still alive and vote, the dead people have been alive to vote in most red states, that is why they are worried about Obama’s reelection, we are going to dig more and some will end up in jails.

Let the Congress debate on the Dead Voters in Virginia, if any person holding or have been elected by dead voters in any government offices that might have used the dead voting cards will be taken to court and refund all the moneys he or she was paid as salary and others, we shall start with the DMV, Social Security, Board of Elections, we have to seal all the loop holes in order to let the economy start off.

Americans must come together despite different political parties we may have. We must come together and work together in order to get reed of our enemies abroad, we must come together as one America, we must desist form calling names and abuse our leaders where by the enemies uses that degree to retaliate because of our own stupidity, let as be governed by one respectful, elect president his Vice President.

Yours faithfully.

Tom Nyambok for Governor of Virginia.

9/21/2012

World Investment Report 2012

From: Yona Maro

Prospects for foreign direct investment (FDI) continue to be fraught with risks and uncertainties. At $1.5 trillion, flows of global FDI exceeded pre-financial crisis levels in 2011, but the recovery is expected to level off in 2012 at an estimated $1.6 trillion. Despite record cash holdings, transnational corporations have yet to convert available cash into new and sustained FDI, and are unlikely to do so while instability remains in international financial markets. Even so, half of the global total will flow to developing and transition economies, underlining the important development role that FDI can play, including in least developed countries.

International investment policymaking is in flux. The annual number of new bilateral investment treaties (BITs) continues to decline, while regional investment policymaking is intensifying. Sustainable development is gaining prominence in international investment policymaking. Numerous ideas for reform of investor–State dispute settlement have emerged, but few have been put into action.

Against this background, this year’s World Investment Report unveils the UNCTAD Investment Policy Framework for Sustainable Development. Mobilizing investment for sustainable development is essential in this era of persistent crises and pressing social and environmental challenges.
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KENYA: MP TO TABLE ANOTHER BILL TO TAME GOVERNMENT FROM TRADING WITH PRIVATE BANKS.

By Dickens Wasonga

Gem MP Jakoyo Midiwo plans to table a bill in Parliament seeking to restrain the government from depositing public coffers in foreign and private banks.

Speaking in Kisumu last week , Midiwo accused the government of doing business with some foreign and private banks a move he claimed was derailing investment.

“The kind of business the government is involved in with some foreign and private banks is a big impediment to investment in this country,” Midiwo said.

He blamed souring interest rates on the involvement between the government and the banks.

If successful, Midiwo said the bill will force the government to bank only with commercial banks where it has interest.

He said they will include the Kenya Commercial Bank, National Bank and the Consolidated Bank.

“The women and youth funds should be channeled through these three banks to avoid the high interest rates currently charged by the private banks,” he said.

Midiwo who is also the ODM chief whip said the bill will give the banks a proper capital base to enable them transact their businesses.

In March, amendments to the Finance Bill 2011/2012 sponsored by Midiwo to have the lending rates capped were defeated in Parliament.

Midiwo accused some MPs of shooting down the amendments.

“This market must be controlled. I will be introducing similar amendments to the Finance Bill 2012/2013,” he said.

Central Bank of Kenya‘s Monetary Policy Committee reduced the Central Bank’s base lending rate to 16.5 per cent down from 18 percent on in July.

The MPC attributed the lowering to improvements in inflation and the local currency exchange rate.

The proposals to have interest rates controlled has been a contentious issue for more than a decade and since the introduction of Finance Bill 2011/2012, parliament had rejected the bill forcing the Finance minister to withdraw it twice.

The failed amendments had proposed to cap interest rates on loans at at most 4 per-cent points more than the then 18 per cent Central Bank Rate, which would have put the cap at 22 per cent and put a base on deposit interests at 12.6 percent.

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Kenya: Githae says Treasury has no money to pay teachers

From: Judy Miriga

Folks,

Coalition Government Leadership including Githae to be taken to court and the Coalition Government to resign immediately.

No games people……When they play fire, give them their dose so in the future it serves as a lesson to those who think the middle-class and poor cannot make a force to demand for their rights…….

Put fire on their bottom people…….It is the best most excellent prescription if discipline and order is the next thing needed for cooperation. Let them begin to jump towards the right direction as the fire is lit on their bottom…….

Judy Miriga
Diaspora Spokesperson
Executive Director
Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc.,
USA
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— On Wed, 9/19/12, Maryann Wanjiru wrote:
From: Maryann Wanjiru
Subject: Githae says Treasury has no money to pay teachers
Date: Wednesday, September 19, 2012, 9:22 AM

Folks,

This just proves Kenya is not a country for poor and middle class folks, kwa ufupi Kibaki is not a president for the poor,

Githae now tells us there is no money to pay teacher, but there is money to increase Permanent Secretaries salaries, what a disgrace, Githae should resign and go eat rats, like he once said.

Children will be at home for a very looong time while a dysfunctional goverment claims to be in control, bure kabisa

Githae says Treasury has no money to pay teachers

By IMMACULATE KARAMBU Posted Wednesday, September 19 2012 at 14:41

In Summary
* Minister: Giving in to the teachers’ demands would impact negatively on Kenya’s economy.
* Treasury negotiating to have the tutors’ salary demands catered for in the next budget.

Finance minister Njeru Githae has said Treasury cannot meet the demands of striking teachers due to budgetary constraints.
Mr Githae said Wednesday the budget did not accommodate the tutors’ salary demands.

“The teachers’ demands were not included in the budget and according to the new law, the minister of Finance does not have powers to authorise anything which is not in the budget.

“The only options available include borrowing to pay salaries, increasing taxes or cutting on development expenditure. As the minister of Finance, I would have a problem borrowing to meet recurrent expenditure,” said Mr Githae

He was speaking at Treasury buildings during a loan signing ceremony between Kenya and Belgium to fund the installation of wind turbines at the KenGen’s Ngong wind power farm to increase its capacity.

The minister noted that giving in to the teachers’ demands would impact negatively on Kenya’s economy, which is on the path of recovery from a number of challenges experienced last year including high cost of living, increased interest rates and a depreciating currency that slowed down growth.

“Strikes are a common thing around election time. Giving in to these demands will impact negatively on the economy which is still fragile and recovering from the shocks experienced earlier on,” said Mr Githae.
The minister has been accused of snubbing meetings by the parliamentary committee working to resolve the nationwide strike, leading to further delays in the talks.

On Wednesday, the minister defended his absence saying that he was held up in other commitments including cabinet meetings.
He added that Treasury was negotiating to have the teachers’ demands catered for in the next budget.

“We are negotiating to see whether these demands can be catered for in the next budget as it is not possible to meet them now,” he said.

More than 800,000 pupils are expected to sit the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE)in about 23,000 schools while another 437,782 will sit the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) in more than 7,000 schools.

Their fate now depends on how fast negotiations to resolve the ongoing strike will be concluded.

Already, the Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) has warned of a looming examination crisis should the strike persist.


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Government Guide to Developing Citizens Budgets

From: Yona Maro

Governments can encourage citizen participation by creating conditions that enable them to participate in a meaningful way. A very important one of these conditions is that all citizens have ready access to government information. Access means not simply physical access to documents, but accessibility. Where the government’s work is highly technical, it is not sufficient to simply make technical documents available. Citizens should have access to information in a language and through formats that ordinary people can understand and appreciate.

http://internationalbudget.org/wp-content/uploads/Citizen-Budget-Guide.pdf


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Infrastructure for whom? A Critique of the Infrastructure Strategies of the G20 and the World Bank

From: Yona Maro

There can be no prosperity without infrastructure, but infrastructure projects don’t necessarily benefit the poor. Past energy, water and transport strategies have neglected the poorest population groups, and taken a heavy toll on affected people and the environment. Will the new infrastructure strategies of the World Bank and the Group of 20 address the needs of the poor, or will they entrench the power of privileged groups? After hundreds of billions of dollars have been invested in the infrastructure sectors of poor countries, at least one billion people remain cut off from the basic services that would allow them to lead healthy, productive lives. About 13% of the world population has no access to clean water, 19% has no access to electricity, and 39% has no access to improved sanitation. Infrastructure projects have impoverished millions of people who lived in their paths, and contributed to climate change and the degradation of ecosystems on which present and future generations depend for their livelihoods.

In November 2011, the Group of 20, the World Bank and other multilateral development banks prepared new strategies for infrastructure development. They propose to focus public support on strategic regional infrastructure projects such as large dams and transport corridors, and to make them attractive for private investment through public guarantees and other incentives.

The report finds that large dams – and particularly the complex multipurpose schemes once again being promoted by the World Bank – have a history of big cost overruns and questionable economics. They have typically been built without public participation, and have increased societies’ vulnerability to corruption and climate change. Centralized projects have often had massive social impacts on local communities, but their benefits have largely bypassed the rural poor. In spite of the billions of dollars that have been poured into dams at the Inga site over the past five decades, 94% of the population of the Democratic Republic of Congo still has no access to electricity.

http://www.internationalrivers.org/files/attached-files/infrastructure_for_whom_report.pdf


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THE EAST AFRICAN COMMUNITY HAS PROPOSES NEW SYSTEM OF FUNDING MODEL FOR ITS ACTIVITIES AMID GROWING BUDGETARY CONSTRAINTS.

Writes Leo Odera Omolo

The East African Community {EAC] has proposed a new funding model for its activities in the member states amid growing budgetary constraints.

Presently, partner states make equal contributions to the regional bloc, but the new system proposes that such money be based on percentage of either a country’s GDP or revenue collection.

The judicial and legal sectoral committee sitting in Bujumbura last week with the aim of amending the EAC Treaty proposed the changes.

If amended bigger economies like Kenya with close to USD 30 billion GDP will contribute much more than smaller ones like Burundi at USD2.33 billion

Benard Mulengani, a member of the East African Legislative Assembly said the amendments will boost the resources available to the regional bloc,that is largest dependant on donor funds.

Mulangeni said partner states can contribute up to 10 per cent of their total budget to the EAC as determined by the Council of Ministers, compared with the present practice where countries give less than 3 per cent.

The member said this had forced the bloc to rely on donors for up to 72 per cent of the USD 138 million EAC budget.

However Safina Tsungu Kweke, a former general propose committee chairperson at EALA said most donor funds don’t benefit the region. He added the money was gong to workshops, travel and consultations while infrastructure projects remained stuck at the feasibility study stage.

The department of infrastructure has the disease of getting large amounts of money which doesn’t seem to do any work,”She said. Infrastructure and energy projects of the EAC have been on paper for the past 10 years.

Critics say money that goes into workshops and studies revert back to the donors since they employ their own experts.

According to EALA members of the general purpose committee, the Lake Victoria basin Commission LVBC} is another great beneficiary of unbalanced funding.

The LVBC had been criticized especially in Uganda for putting up projects that don’t create any real impact on the lies of the people in the region. LVBC has a total budget of USD 40 million in the current financial year- the second biggest appropriation after that of the EAC secretariat.

Veronic Bathirye a member of Uganda parliament’s committee on East African Affairs pointed out the Mt Elgon regional ecosystem conservation programme that has been running since 2006, as among those that had not made any real impact in peoples lives.

The Mayuge water project also funded in Uganda by LVBC is also among hose leaders in Uganda including those officials at the Ministry of East African Affairs who believes is ineffective. Money from donors for the LVBC cannot be reallocated to projects leaders consider as more worthwhile.

Several EALA representatives said full funding of the community by partner states would weed out some of these irregularities.

But the proposal to have contributions based o the GDP or revenue collection has its problems like creating inequality among member states, critics warns.

Prof Fredrick Sempabwa, a constitutional law expert in Kampala said the EAC is an equality based arrangement and countries contributing higher quotas would cause them to feel as though they had bigger stake in the community.

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USA: Romney, Ryan, and the Devil’s Budget: Will America Keep Its Soul?

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Romney, Ryan and the Devil’s Budget: Will America Keep Its Soul?

by George Lakoff and Glenn W. Smith, first published at Huffington Post, 08/22/2012

America was born with a great soul, a moral view of Democracy in which citizens care about their fellow citizens and join together to take responsibility not just for themselves but for each other, for America as a union, a joint enterprise. The government’s job was to carry out that moral vision and to do so it created what we call The Public, the provision of basic protection and empowerment for all.

From the beginning of America, the Public provided roads and bridges, public schools, hospitals, a national bank, a patent office, police, a justice system, public buildings and records, and more. Since then the Public has expanded as public needs have expanded — sewers, clean water, public transportation, public health and disease control, scientific research, the internet, GPS, an energy grid, parks, and much, much more.
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The Poverty and Welfare Impacts of Climate Change Quantifying the Effects, Identifying the Adaptation Strategies

From: Yona Maro

In Sub-Saharan Africa, where population growth exceeded the rate of poverty reduction, the number of extremely poor people increased from 290 million in 1990 to 356 million in 2008, yet over 2005-08, the region’s poverty rate nonetheless ‘fell 4.8 percentage points to less than 50 percent the largest drop in Sub-Saharan Africa since international poverty rates have been computed,’ according to the latest edition of the World Development Indicators (WDI) (World Bank 2012). Although progress has been slower at the $2-a-day poverty line, the WDI noted that an increase in the absolute number of people living on $1.25-$2.00 a day reflects both the upward movement from extreme poverty and ‘the vulnerabilities still faced by a great many people in the world.’ climate change is likely to reduce agricultural productivity, especially in the tropical regions, and to directly affect poor people’s livelihood assets including health, access to water and other natural resources, homes, and infrastructure (World Bank 2010).

Moreover, increasing climatic variability manifesting as more frequent and erratic weather extremes, or ‘weather shocks’ will likely make poor households even more vulnerable, which could in turn exacerbate the incidence, severity, and persistence of poverty in developing countries. This volume not only surveys the research terrain concerning the effects of climate change on poverty but also looks closely at vulnerable rural populations (in a developing country, Indonesia, and in the newly industrialized Mexico) where weather shocks have measurable short term if not immediate effects on the farming livelihoods many depend on for both income and subsistence. The low-income farmers of rice in Indonesia and of corn and other staple crops in Mexico are at the human forefront of climate change.

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International Wealth Report 2012

From: Yona Maro

The report presents a framework that offers a long-term perspective on human well-being and sustainability, based on a comprehensive analysis of nations´ productive base and their link to economic development.

The IWR 2012 was developed on the notion that current economic production indicators such as gross domestic product (GDP) and the Human Development Index (HDI) are insufficient, as they fail to reflect the state of natural resources or ecological conditions, and focus exclusively on the short term, without indicating whether national policies are sustainable.

The IWR 2012 features an index that measures the wealth of nations by looking into a country’s capital assets, including manufactured, human and natural capital, and its corresponding values: the Inclusive Wealth Index (IWI). Results show changes in inclusive wealth from 1990 to 2008, and include a long-term comparison to GDP for an initial group of 20 countries worldwide, which represent 72% of the world GDP and 56% of the global population.

The IWR will be published every two years and will offer policy-makers a practical framework for assessing the state of a country’s productive base. It can also provide guidance on which forms of capital investment should be made to ensure sustainable development. More broadly, the report will be of use to scholars and practitioners working in economics, development studies, environmental and other fields.

The Inclusive Wealth Report 2012 is a joint initiative of UNU-IHDP and UNEP in collaboration with the UN-Water Decade Programme on Capacity Development (UNW-DPC) and the Natural Capital Project.

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