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Lunch Panel - Global Overview
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Dinner Panel - The Future of Space
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E-commerce: Emerging Trends and Business Models
The e-commerce market is experiencing rapid growth and change, with social media usage, mobile tec
hnology adoption and the evolving consumer driving innovation at both established and nascent retailers.
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Don't Wait for the Next War: A Strategy for American Growth and Global Leadership
As America emerges from more than a decade of arduous wars, a renowned military leader, global aff
airs expert and political commentator identifies a new unifying national strategy for freeing the U.S.
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Interview: Dr. Youssef Boutros-Ghali on COVID-19, Debt Sustainability, and Macroeconomic Policy in Africa
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COVID-19’s Impact on the Agri-Sharing Economy in Africa: An Interview with Hello Tractor’s Folu Okunade
COVID-19 Africa Watch talks to Folu Okunade, Chief Strategy Officer & Chief Operating Officer,
Hello Tractor, about the pandemic’s impacts on small-scale farming and the burgeoning ‘agri-sharing’ economy in Africa.
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Essential Workers: Society’s Most Valuable or Most Vulnerable?
Wednesday, December 16 | 11 am ET
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Interview: Dr. Youssef Boutros-Ghali on COVID-19, Debt Sustainability, and Macroeconomic Policy in Africa
Key Takeaways
The following are a few of the main takeaways from COVID-19 Africa Watch’s conversati
on with Dr. Youssef Boutros-Ghali, the former Finance Minister of the Arab Republic of Egypt:
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The COVID-19 Pandemic is Killing Zimbabwe’s Once-thriving Cross-border Trading Networks
Policies meant to control the spread of COVID-19 have had dramatic negative impacts on Zimbabweans i
nvolved in cross-border trade, including in Mutare, a city east of Harare on the border with Mozambique.
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How COVID-19 Disrupted the Livelihoods of Farmers—and Heightened Food Insecurity—in Kenya
In Kenya, COVID-19 restrictions cut off access to agricultural inputs and sowed confusion among farm
ers. The impacts on food security—and farming livelihoods—could be severe and long-lasting.
, The confirmation of the first COVID-19 case in Kenya on March 12, 2020, set off a series of events that put the livelihoods of smallholder farmers at risk and also increased food insecurity throughout the country., During the production stage, COVID-19 restrictions cut off access to agricultural inputs and sowed confusion among farmers
, One of the first ways the pandemic affected smallholders was that restrictions on movement obstructed access to important farming inputs, including seeds.
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