Wednesday, October 03, 2012

The Next Administration Should Close Africa’s Energy Poverty Gap

What’s going to be President Obama’s legacy on Africa? President Clinton championed AGOA, still the core of US-Africa trade relations. President Bush built PEPFAR and the MCC. There’s an outside chance that Feed the Future could be Obama’s lasting contribution, but I think the jury’s still out. So what kind of big impact-big splash effort could we hope for in the next four years, from either a second Obama term or a new Romney administration?

My starting assumption is that any new White House effort on Africa policy would have to meet the following criteria:

See full Article: http://blogs.cgdev.org/mca-monitor/2012/09/the-next-administration-should-close-africas-energy-poverty-gap.php