Addressing Africa’s Demographic Dividend

World Trade Organisation: Agricultural Issues for Africa

The Africa Competitiveness Report 2013, the fourth report jointly published by our organizations, comes out at a time when international interest in Africa is surging and the continent is seen both as an investment destination of choice and as a region marked by greater prosperity and development.

Welcome to the third annual edition of Ernst & Young’s Africa attractiveness survey. We release this at a time of ongoing uncertainty in the global economy, with the Eurozone in particular continuing to struggle. In contrast,economic growth across much of Africa has remained robust, with a number of our economies still among the fastest growing in the world. This continues a remarkable decade of growth and development, with not only economic, but also social and political indicators all trending in the right direction.