Ten Rules for Accelerating Development

Nicky Oppenheimer outlines his TEN RULES for accelerating development in Africa,They include:

• First, beware of those bearing gifts: The business of aid has become just that, a business. From NGO's professing to speak for Africans to consultants bearing high-altitude plans which seldom survive contact with the ground, their interests are as much in themselves as their professed target, their constituents more often the fee-paying donors than the African recipients.
• Instead of seeing aid as a form of assistance, Africa needs to view and use it as an investment catalyst, steering much of it towards infrastructure. New ways should be sought and developed to use aid in partnership with the private sector, leveraging it to attract greater funds and in practical ways through reducing risk in infrastructure ventures.
• The need to ensure market access...This is not just about removing tariffs but non-tariff barriers too, including agriculture subsidies. Openness to the international economy is a sine qua non for growth.
• Outsiders must, fourth, develop a differentiated view of Africa. Today’s Africa should increasingly be viewed by those who want to do business there as a differentiated continent.It consists of 54 countries