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2. The New Angola: A Conversation with Foreign Minister Manuel Domingos Augusto
- Author:
- Atlantic Council
- Publication Date:
- 08-2019
- Content Type:
- Video
- Institution:
- Atlantic Council
- Abstract:
- A twenty-five-year civil war, coupled with rapid oil-fueled growth, shaped Angola into a country ripe with contradictions. It is Sub-Saharan Africa’s third largest economy and the region’s second largest oil producer. However, many Angolans live on less than $2 a day and social indicators, from education to life expectancy, are low. When President João Lourenço was elected in 2017, many people rejoiced his promise of a “new Angola.” Since then, his government has taken swift action to fight “the cancer of corruption,” clean up the business environment, and diversify the economy, reducing the country’s overdependence on oil revenues. But to make meaningful progress, Angola needs to attract greater foreign investment in sectors beyond petroleum. Please join the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center on Monday, August 19, for a timely conversation with H.E. Manuel Domingos Augusto, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Angola, on the US-Angola partnership going forward.
- Topic:
- International Affairs
- Political Geography:
- Global Focus
3. Priority Venezuela: The Global Reverberations of a Humanitarian Crisis
- Author:
- Atlantic Council
- Publication Date:
- 10-2019
- Content Type:
- Video
- Institution:
- Atlantic Council
- Abstract:
- As world leaders gather in New York, one crisis – Venezuela -- threatens to increasingly spread beyond its borders without renewed international attention. The Western Hemisphere’s largest man-made emergency is the result of years of Nicolás Maduro’s failed economic policies, cronyism, corruption, and systemic human rights violations. Now is the time to refocus and reaffirm the world’s attention to the global implications of Venezuela’s humanitarian crisis.
- Topic:
- International Affairs
- Political Geography:
- Venezuela and Global Focus
4. The Global Innovation Sweepstakes: A Quest to Win the Future
- Author:
- Atlantic Council
- Publication Date:
- 06-2018
- Content Type:
- Video
- Institution:
- Atlantic Council
- Abstract:
- Please join us on Tuesday, June 26 from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. for a tour of the world’s most innovative places and a discussion on what today’s technology trends mean for the future security and prosperity of the United States. During this event, we will launch a new report: The Global Innovation Sweepstakes: A Quest to Win the Future. The Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, in partnership with Qualcomm, embarked on a global tour of technology hubs to determine which ones are at the cutting edges of tech-based innovation—and which are at risk of falling behind. Our researchers visited nearly a dozen countries and spoke with almost two hundred experts. Will China overtake the United States? Can Europe rise to the challenge? Why are small states often the most innovative? This new report seeks to answer these questions—and others raised by the unfolding technological revolution. It also provides policy recommendations for research and development, skills training, technology transfer, diversity, education, and more.
- Topic:
- International Political Economy, Science and Technology, and International Affairs
- Political Geography:
- Global Focus