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Article: Ensuring Africa's voice is heard: African Business spoke to the Africa Director of the WEF, Katherine Tweedie, about this year's programme, which again promises to be invigorating and varied in terms of coverage.(World Economic Forum)(Interview)
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- African Business
- Article date:
- June 1, 2009
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Omar Ben Yedder: We now live in a fast-moving environment; what we've seen happening in the past year would have once taken five years or more to unfold. In terms of our response to these changing circumstances, is it more difficult to find an agenda that reflects the needs of African countries?
Katherine Tweedie: You can look at it a number of different ways. One is that the world has shifted incredibly over the last 18 months and I think for us to be responsible, we need to address what those shifts are and what the implications are for African economies. That covers much of what we have tried to address in the programme. However, there are certain topics, ...