Pravin Gordhan, South African Minister of Finance on Land Reform, BRICS Bank, & African Growth

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African Development, African National Congress, BRIC Bank, Brookings Institution, Land Reform in South Africa, Pravin Gordhan, South Africa

Judging by the white tents I saw set up outside of the IMF and World Bank earlier this week, there must be some sort of prominent economics meeting going on in town (my ignorance reveals that I’m not much of an economics person).  I suspect that this is why South Africa’s Minister of Finance, Pravin Gordhan, was around to speak at the Brookings Institution today (his counterpart in Zimbabwe will speak at Freedom House tomorrow and I hope to cover that as well).  The Chief Economist for Africa at the World Bank was also on the panel, I’ll post separately on his remarks (and those of a Brookings economist), which were mildly incendiary and displeased me, on Friday or over the weekend.

The topic of the panel was “Inequality and Inclusive Growth in Africa” and not surprisingly with that theme, Minister Gordhan expounded on

Kenyan Elections Pt. II (Brookings): Jendayi Frazer Calls the ICC ‘Illegitimate’

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Brookings Institution, Jendayi Frazer, Karuti Kanyinga, Kenya, Kenya election, Kenya ICC, Mwangi Kimenyi

The Brookings Institution hosted a more riveting than usual talk today, “Kenya Decides: The 2013 Presidential Election.”  As I mentioned in the previous post, this talk, on a much more prominent platform, repeated the guests that SAIS convened yesterday with the addition of Jendayi Frazer, the Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs under George W. Bush.  If I recall correctly, Frazer stated that Kenya was the first African country she ever visited.