Africa: World Bank Group Launches Ten-Year Strategy to Drive Jobs and Prosperity in Uganda: [World Bank] Kampala -- The World Bank Group (WBG) Board of Executive Directors today endorsed a new Country Partnership Framework (CPF) for Uganda, a 10-year strategy (2026-2035) designed to accelerate a private sector-led economic transformation and expand opportunities for the country's rapidly growing… http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TStX3y #Uganda #WorldBank #EconomicDevelopment #JobCreation #PrivateSector

https://www.sightline.org/2026/06/03/yes-a-land-value-tax-is-possible-in-washington-state/ “Tah-dah! Empty lots become homes or businesses” #Spokane #LandValueTax #TaxShift #Sightline #housing #EconomicDevelopment #walkable

Africa: African Integration Beyond Trade - When Africans Become Foreigners in Africa: [allAfrica] In my earlier piece in February, Beyond Preferences and Rhetoric: What Africa's 2025 Integration Moment Really Demanded I argued that Africa's long-term competitiveness would not be secured by waiting on external trade preferences, but by taking integration seriously as an economic project.… http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TSs9sJ #AfricanIntegration #TradePolicy #EconomicDevelopment #Africa2025 #IntegrationEconomy

Africa: Mwenda's Alarm Bell and Africa's Path Out of Debt Dependency: [New Times] Andrew Mwenda's recent remarks on Uganda's fiscal predicament should resonate far beyond Kampala. When nearly half of government revenue, 46 percent, is consumed by debt servicing, leaving only 54 percent for salaries, roads, bridges, dams, healthcare, education, and other public investments, the challenge is no longer… http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TSrpYd #Africa #DebtDependency #FiscalPolicy #EconomicDevelopment #Uganda

Africa: Zero Tariffs - the Larger Test for China-Africa Cooperation Lies in Capacity Building: [Daily News] Beijing -- AMID profound adjustments in the global trade landscape and an accelerating technological revolution and industrial transformation, China-Africa economic and trade relations are entering a new lens of observation. http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TSqrqM #Africa #ChinaAfricaCooperation #TradeRelations #EconomicDevelopment #CapacityBuilding

Africa: African Multilateralism From a Vision to a Reality - Lessons From the Most Hostile Continent On Earth: [African Arguments] For twenty years I have worked strengthening African governance and multilateral institutions. Across each sector - security, economic development, education reform and humanitarian aid - I heard inspiring politicians agree to ambitious international… http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TSqYKs #AfricanMultilateralism #Africa #InternationalCooperation #Governance #EconomicDevelopment

Africa: How can the Global South chart its path to development by seizing the economic and financial opportunities of China's 15th Five-Year Plan, in light of the characteristics of Chinese diplomacy?: [allAfrica] My stay in China as part of the DongFang scholarship program at Peking University (PKU) allowed me to immerse in the heart of China's institutional and administrative architecture, to meet… http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TSjKZ0 #Africa #GlobalSouth #China #EconomicDevelopment #FiveYearPlan

https://cardinalnews.org/2026/05/21/in-lynchburgs-historic-black-commercial-district-developers-are-giving-fifth-street-a-second-chance/ “To be a Black business owner that’s occupying this space, I look at it as an honor first of all, and I look at it as a responsibility” #Lynchburg #BlackHistory #EconomicDevelopment #UrbanRenewal