Special Reports

The Special Reports listed here are either BRIEFING PAPERS that present information regarding the organisation and its activities or DIGITAL BOOKS that offer a detailed and downloadable presentation of the organisation and/or a specific topic.
 
 
Perth Education City
Special Reports > Australia, Education & Training

Western Australian education for global mobility

By Perth Education City

An Australian education provides students with portable skills and a global passport to career advancement. The gaps that once divided the world into segmented markets have merged into a globalised network.

ALEAP
Special Reports > India, Employment & Workplace

A new leaf in entrepreneurial history.

By ALEAP-The Association of Lady Entrepreneurs of Andhra Pradesh

ALEAP, registered under Companies Act of 1956, was established by like-minded female entrepreneurs to enhance the lives of women and empower them by helping them to establish small and marginal enterprises.

Citi

Mobile communications – a driver of economic growth

By Filippo Sabatini, Global Head of Public Sector, Global Transaction Services, Citi and Tomasz Smilowicz, Global Head of Mobile Solutions, Global Transaction Services, Citi

There are many drivers of economic growth but it is difficult to ascribe relative levels of importance to each. Near the top of the list, however, is the rapid rate of technological advancement we have seen over the past decade.

Adamawa State University, Mubi, Nigeria
Special Reports > Nigeria, Education & Training

Strengthening Regional Centres of Excellence in African Higher Education

By Professor Alkasum Abba, Adamawa State University

Conduct of research is a benchmark for excellence in all institutions of higher education. African institutions are among the lowest ranked in the world, this has been mainly ascribed to lack of capacity.

Urban Development Corportation Jamaica

The renaissance of downtown Kingston…. Economic rebirth of a city

By Joy Douglas, General Manager, Urban Development Corporation Jamaica

Urban decay is not an irreversible phenomenon. In fact, the renewal of blighted urban areas is not unlike the transformation of urban areas not classified as blighted. We expect that an engine of resurgence will apply to the city of Kingston in the Caribbean Commonwealth territory of Jamaica.


Urban Development Corporation Jamaica

Downtown Kingston: The cultural renaissance begins

By Joy Douglas, General Manager, Urban Development Corporation Jamaica

Downtown Kingston has undoubtedly been the socio-cultural and indeed spiritual fulcrum of the nation; a melting pot of music, culture, old-world charm and class juxtaposed against intermittent signs of urban blight.

African Finance Corporation

African Finance Corporation: Building the New Africa

By African Finance Corporation

Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) is a private sector led international organisation established by treaty between independent sovereign states

Telecommunications Authority of Trinidad and Tobago

Facilitating increased access to ICT’s in Trinidad and Tobago

By Cynthia Reddock-Downes, Executive Officer and Finance Administrator

The Telecommunications Authority of Trinidad and Tobago was established in July 2004 as the agency responsible for liberalising the telecommunications sector and for regulating both telecommunications and broadcasting. 

Ministry of Infrastructure, Rwanda
Special Reports > Rwanda, Resources & Energy

Rwanda: energy and meteorology

By Marie Claire Mukasine, Permanent secretary, Ministry of Infrastructure, Rwanda

The Energy Sector has set the ambitious targets in its Strategic Plan, to increase access to electricity from less than 15% today to 50% of the population by 2017. This is meant to strongly support the socio-economic development of the country.

Rwanda Ministry of Infrastructure

Rwanda infrastructure sector

By Marie Claire Mukasine, Permanent secretary, Rwanda Ministry fo Infrastructure

Infrastructure is at the heart of development of any economy and nation, without roads no agricultural produce can be exported and without water supply no healthy development is facilitated.