"The 14th Review and Strategy Conference of AIMES (African Initiative on Mining Environment and Society) will take place in Accra Ghana on 13-15 August 2013, under the theme – The Africa Mining Vision: From Promise to Realisation. In the two years since the last AIMES meeting which took place in Harare, Zimbabwe there has been a strengthening of the tide of Afro-optimism thanks to the persistence of Africa’s economic growth on the basis of the continued favourable prices of minerals. A key feature of this new optimism is the broadening of consensus for a re-orientation of policies towards an agenda for structural transformation of Africa’s economies, even as it is possible to discern a spectrum of meanings and consequences in the use of the concept “structural transformation”. Central to most of the the conceptions of Africa’s structural transformation is recognition that Africa’s economies should escape from their raw material commodity export dependence, a feature which has been accentuated by the ongoing commodity boom, and must embark on a path of commodity based industrialization. This position repeats a central thesis of the Africa Mining Vision (AMV)."
Posted on: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 12:22:47 +0000