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Compiled by Africa China Review. Ruhiira, Uganda, is one of the villages that served as a laboratory for Sachs’ theories about aid.   (Photo: Guillaume Bonn) Jeffrey Sachs is an American professor of Economics best known for his campaign to end global poverty. In one of his books, The End of …

By Africa China Review Reporter Mr. Alex Yam (Ren Wenwen) left, and Mr. Francis Ruzagiliza (Right), Chief Operations Manager and Country Manager respectively, at Asia Machinery InvestmentsLimited, Kigali-Rwanda.    Photo: Africa China Review. Sept, 2, 2021.  A few years ago it was not possible to find heavy-duty trucks being sold on the Rwanda market. Companies involved in …

By Gerald Mbanda The World Bank report titled, “Poverty and Shared Prosperity report 2020” highlights how the COVID-19 pandemic is likely to push between 30 to 40 million people into extreme poverty in Africa. The poor in Sub-Saharan Africa are more likely to be exposed to the threats of conflict and climate …

— By eliminating extreme poverty China has won the biggest and toughest battle against poverty in human history. — Putting the people’s interests first, China has adopted rigorous COVID-19 prevention and control measures, and turned the tide in the battle against the virus. — China has taken protecting the rights …

The East African Business Council (EABC), a regional trade lobby, on Wednesday urged the East African Community (EAC) partner states to liberalize the air transport services to spur intra-regional trade. The EABC is the regional apex body of the private sector in the EAC member states of Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, …

By Hannah Ryder The G7’s new infrastructure initiative cannot succeed unless it is based on a positive vision of transformational development, argue Hannah Ryder and Ovigwe Eguegu.  Is it a bird, is it a plane? No, it’s Build Back Better World, or B3W, the G7’s newly announced plan for infrastructure financing around …

By Huang Meibo and Niu Dongfang      A train runs on the Addis Ababa-Djibouti Railway. Photo: Xinhua It’s wrong to claim Chinese overseas investments are ‘debt trap’In March 2021, Georgetown Law, the Peterson Institute for International Economics, AidData, Center for Global Development and Kiel Institute for the World Economy of …

In Kolwezi, in southern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), beyond counting are drilling rigs and dump trucks coming back and forth on mine after mine. But on the outskirt of this world-class mining hub, one particular mine stands out from the others, with greenery sprawling its mining dumps where …

By Africa China Review Staff Reporter CRRC’s maglev train launched on July 20, 2021 China on Tuesday July 20, launched the world’s fastest high-speed maglev train with a top speed of 600km per hour. According to the high-Speed Rail Alliance, the French TGV train is the one that held the world’s record running …

Mustafa Hyder Sayed In July 2020, the Ash Center of Harvard University published a comprehensive public opinion survey on the level of Chinese peoples’ satisfaction with Beijing, which was based on data collected from surveys ranging from 2003 to 2016, from 32,000 individual respondents. In 2016, the last year that …