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As the delegation from African countries arrives in India for the 9th CII Conclave on
India-Africa Project Partnerships, we emphasize the tremendous political, economic
and cultural potential of different African countries. CII has worked for the past 8
years to increase project exports from India to African economies. The Conclave on
India-Africa Project Partnership has developed into a platform that has enhanced the
presence of Brand India in the African economies. We delve deep in our Special Report
on to the Journey of the Conclave so far with spotlight on the Focus Countries. We also
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take a closer look at ways to enhance effective cooperation and coordination between
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Africa and India. The current edition carries an important interview of Mr. Shyamal
Gupta, Chairman, CII Africa Committee and Special Advisor, Tata International Ltd.

I will quote the words of the new President of Ghana, “There’s no denying the fact that
even after 55 years, Ghana is still a young country”. We wish the new President success
in his endeavors in bringing colours to this West African nation. This issue, we have put
the spotlight on Zambia, A beckoning investment destination in Africa.
The Conclave on
India-Africa Project
Partnership has Give an enhanced experience to your travel in West Africa, with the newly launched
airlines, Gambia Bird. Find more compelling reasons to fly with the National Airlines
of the Smiling Coast of Africa in our section Brands & Businesses. Also, the importance
developed into a
of waste management is discussed in detail. In keeping with the Soccer spirit, find out
platform that has
enhanced the the FIFA World Player of the Year in the section Sports Special. There is more. So read
presence of Brand on…….

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CONTENTS
JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2013

32 Special Report Regulars
CII EXIM Bank
7 | Letters to the Editor
12 | Business Bulletin
Conclave 109 | Doctor’s Advice
111 | UN News
Journey so far
116 | 10 Minutes - In
Rendezvous With
121 | What’s on?
121 | Know More About Africa
122 | Spiritual Fruits

8 Anniversary Special 60 In Focus 94 Brands & Businesses
»» Zoomlion Ghana Ltd.
»» Burkina Faso: Towards a
13 Respected Contribution New Era of Growth and »» KSConsult
»» Accra Compost and
»» Shri Shyam Saran, Chairman, Opportunities
»» Lesotho – The Kingdom in the Recycling Plant
Research and Information
System for Developing Sky »» Gambia Bird
Countries and Senior Fellow »» South Sudan- A World of »» Mahatma Gandhi University
Centre for Policy Research and Opportunities »» TPS Infrastructure Ltd.
Former Foreign Secretary, India
73 Current Affairs
26 Spotlight Country–Zambia »» Burundi, Egypt, Kenya, Liberia, 112 Business Conferences and
Nigeria, Tunisia, Zambia Meetings
Zambia- A Beckoning »» Interactive Session with
Investment Destination 78 Sectoral Analysis Commerce, Trade & Industry
Minister - Hon. Robert
»» Lesdep - A Panacea to Sichinga, Zambia
Unemployment »» Lesdep Spread Its Wings in
Niger

»» Economic Review
»» Sector Profiles 114 Celebrations & Feasts
»» Overview of Zambia’s »» 57th Anniversary of
Investment Climate Independence of Republic of
»» Tourism Sudan

32 Special Report 84 In Rendezvous With... 117 Sports Special
»» H.E. Mr. Desire Koumba, »» FIFA World Player of the Year –
»» In Rendezvous With Mr. Syamal Ambassador, Embassy of the Lionel Messi
Gupta, Chairman, CII Africa Republic of Gabon, New Delhi
Committee and Special Advisor,
Tata International Ltd. »» Shri. R.V. Kanoria, Past
»» Republic of Burundi- Exploring
President of Federation of 118 Different Strokes
Indian Chamber of Commerce »» Empty Nest
Investment Opportunities in and Industry, New Delhi
Burundi
»» Mohd. Imam Hasan Kazmi,
»» Cameroon- Africa in Miniature Chairman, All India Imams
»» Guinea Bissau – Plenty of Council, New Delhi 120 Fashion, Trends
Potential »» Amb. James P Morgan, Deputy
.
& Customs
»» Guinea Conakry – A Geological Head of Mission, Embassy of »» Glamazonia – A
Miracle the Republic of South Sudan, Tribute to African
»» Uganda-The Pearl of Africa New Delhi Beauty


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BUSINESS
BULLETIN

To give an African touch
to their Smartphone, Liberian President and Nobel
Apple® has denoted the As part of initiatives aimed at
world leading handset laureate H.E. Ms. Ellen
launch of the iTunes Store® developing Africa’s economy,
manufacturer, Samsung has Johnson Sirleaf was chosen
in India, South Africa, the African Development
hinted it would start loading for 2012 Indira Gandhi Prize
Russia, Turkey and 52 Bank (AfDB) and researchers
some African pictures, for Peace, Disarmament and
additional countries. Over 20 have launched a $63.24
videos, music and dialects Development for serving as
million songs are available million AfDB-funded
into its new handsets in the an illustration and inspiration
for customers to purchase initiative targeted to raise
beginning of 2013. Africa to women in Africa &
and download on the iTunes agricultural productivity and
alone accounts for 40% of beyond and for ensuring the
Store. The iTunes Store also lift millions of Africans
the 10 million copies of return of peace, democracy,
features artists including out of poverty. The five-year
the original Galaxy Note development, security and
AR Rahman in India, and initiative known as “Support
handsets that Samsung has order in Liberia.
Zahara in South Africa, to Agricultural Research for
sold globally, but there is
Taylor Swift and Coldplay, Development of Strategic
hardly any African content
and world-renowned Crops in Africa” (SARD-SC)
in terms of in-built ringtones,
classical musicians including is a research, science, and
language options, and
Lang Lang, Yo Yo Ma and technology development
pictures in any of Samsung’s
Yuja Wang. initiative.
hand held devices.

Recently the Common
Market for Eastern and
Southern Africa (COMESA)
and African Capacity
As the proliferation of
Building Foundation (ACBF)
smartphones in the African
To propose a wholly owned AfDB has recently signed an have signed a funding
region continues to address
subsidiary in South Africa, agreement to provide two agreement totaling to US
high bandwidth data
Coal India Limited (CIL) sovereign-guaranteed multi- $3 million to help out the
demands, Alcatel-Lucent
has suggested the signing tranche lines of credit (LoCs) Member States build the
has been deployed by
of a Memorandum of of respectively US $500 capacities of the research
Airtel Africa to evolve its
Understanding with the million to Bank of Industry based institutions. These
data transport and mobile
Government. The subsidiary (BOI) and of US $200 funds will definitely go a
backhaul networks using.
would be along the lines of million to Nigerian Export- long way in making sure
The French vendor has
CIL’s Coal India Africana, Import Bank (NEXIM) to hold that research findings are
been selected to help Airtel
the wholly owned subsidiary up to the transformation dispersed for the advantage
supply IP-based networking
in Mozambique presently and extension of export- of various programmes in
technology for broadband
developing two coal blocks oriented small and medium the region.
data and video services.
in Tete province. enterprises (SMEs).


RESPECTED
India and
Africa:
CONTRIBUTION
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Development
Partnership
Shri Shyam Saran
Chairman, Research and Information System
for Developing Countries and Senior Fellow
Centre for Policy Research and Former
Foreign Secretary, India

he history of India-Africa resources, they had valuable capacities,
development cooperation experience and knowledge to share with
reflects the philosophy un- one another. This could become a major
derlying India’s engagement catalyst for growth in their countries.
with other developing coun-
tries in the post-colonial period. In the
early years after gaining political inde- Right from the outset, India saw
Key Indian Programmes C

pendence in 1947, India played an ac- the developmental challenge as an
M

tive role in promoting the final and total international responsibility. Economic
Y

elimination of colonial rule across the and technical assistance from developed
CM

world. At the same time, the leaders of countries to developing countries
MY

India and other emerging, independent was considered an obligation, not
CY

countries were conscious of the fact that charity. In its own modest programmes
CMY

political independence would remain for assistance to other developing
constrained unless they became masters countries, India deliberately rejected
K

of their economic destiny as well. In con- the donor-recipient paradigm and
fronting this challenge, India proposed adopted the concept of development
a two-track approach. The first was to cooperation instead. This had significant
utilize the new instruments of inter- consequences:
national governance, in particular the One, development cooperation
U.N. to forge an international consensus incorporated the idea of partnership, of
behind the principle that the economic working for mutual benefit rather than
development of developing countries promoting a patron-client relationship
and the eradication of poverty across which suggested an unequal dependency.
the world, was an international respon- Two, development cooperation was
sibility, to be implemented through based on the priorities determined
multilateral action. The other was the by the partner and not by the source
principle of South-South Cooperation of funds or technical capacity. The
among developing countries themselves, selection of projects and method of
to be pursued both bilaterally as well implementation was arrived at through
as multilaterally through the U.N. This a consultative process, not imposed
principle was based on the recognition by a “donor”. Three, the objective of
that while the newly independent devel- such cooperation would be to create
oping countries were poor and lacked a higher level of capacities enabling


RESPECTED CONTRIBUTION
the relationship to be expanded and personnel, impart specialized skills and plastic moulding, brick-making, among
upgraded in subsequent stages. Instead know-how in different fields. In addition, others. Typically, the ITEC Division as-
of prolonged dependency, the objective the ITEC programme facilitates study sists with project identification, the
would be to create mutually beneficial visits to India by senior political leaders drawing up of a feasibility report, proj-
interdependency. and decision-makers from developing ect implementation and the training of
In the multilateral sphere, India countries to acquaint them with the local personnel to eventually manage
has been a very active proponent of, opportunities India offers in enhancing and run the project on their own. It may
and willing participant in programmes developing cooperation with these be noted that India’s project assistance
such as the Colombo Plan , the Special countries. is not loaded with administrative ex-
Commonwealth Assistance for Africa (2) Project Assistance: The ITEC penses to be borne by the recipient, a
Programme (SCAAP) , the Technical Division has a modest programme for common practice in OECD aid.
Assistance Programme of the U.N. and extending project assistance to develop- (3) Institution Building: Drawing
its Specialized Agencies and activities ing countries, in particular, in the small from its own development experience.
under the United Nations Developmet and medium industry sector. These may India sets great store by capacity-
Programme (UNDP), United Nations include agricultural processing, manu- building and the promotion of skills.
Trade Conference on Trade and facture of agricultural tools, carpentry While training of foreign personnel
Development (UNCTAD) and the various in India and the deputation of Indian
UN Regional Commissions. experts abroad are important means
On the bilateral side, the Government to achieve this, a more sustainable,
Pan-Africa e-Network
of India established a new division in the long-term solution lies in the building
Project

Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) to deal of appropriate institutions in partner
The Pan-Africa e-Network is one of the

with the whole gamut of development countries. These may include vocational
best examples of the growing partnership

cooperation, in 1961. This was known training institutes, entrepreneurship
between India and Africa. It began as a

as the Economic and Coordination development institutes, specialized
visionary initiative of the former President

Division. In 1964, the Indian Technical institutes to foster skills in specific
of India, Dr. Kalam. It is one of the most

and Economic Cooperation (ITEC) areas such as agriculture and
ambitious projects for distance education

programme was launched, as part of the animal husbandry, ICT and business
and tele-medicine even undertaken in

new Division, to manage India’s growing management, among others.
Africa. In addition, the network is also

development cooperation activities. The India spends $ 12 million on ITEC
equipped to support e-governance,

activities excluded were those involving activities annually. Since 1964, the
e-commerce, infotainment, resource

neighbouring countries, such as Nepal, cumulative figure on this account is $
mapping metrological and other services

Bhutan and Sri Lanka, which continued 2.8 billion, with US $ 1 billion giving
in African countries. A total of 47 African

to be handled by the respective to Africa. 40% of the ITEC budget is
countries have joined the project in two

territorial divisions in the MEA. devoted to project assistance. It may be
phases. The first phase was inaugurated

noted that the Government of India has
in February 2009, with 11 African

empanelled 48 prestigious institutions
countries signing up. The second phase

The ITEC Programme pursues its to offer as many as 220 courses in a
II.1 ITEC was launched in August 2010.

mandate of promoting development wide variety of disciplines.
In tele-education, the objective is

cooperation through an interconnected (4) Scholarships: India has a long
to impart quality education to 10,000

set of activities, which have now tradition of providing opportunites
students in Africa over a 5-year period

expanded significantly to merit a for higher education to students for
in various disciplines. Some of the best

separate division within the MEA: developing countries. These may be for
educational institutions are participating.

(1) Capacity building through graduate and post-graduate courses in
Currently 2000 African students are

prestigious Indian universities, covering
already enrolled in several distance

(i) the offer of technical training
education programmes.

slots to personnel from developing a wide range of disciplines in the
In tele-medicine, on-line medical

countries in the very large network humanities, science and technology and
consultation with Indian medical

of vocational and human resource professional areas such as engineering
specialists is now available to African

development institutions across India; and medicine. These scholarships
medical practioners at the Patient End

(ii) the deputation of Indian experts are administered through the Indian
Location in Africa.

to developing countries to train local Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR),
The project cost is $125 million11.


although some scholarships may also market but any subsequent expansion of
be offered under the aegis of other sales depends upon the competitiveness
institutions. Several universities also in terms of quality and price. The
offer self-financing placements to development cooperation programmes
foreign students and this number is now may include helping the Indian private
several times that of placements under sectors to hold regular expositions of
government scholarships. Indian products in partner countries to
It may be noted that several meet the information gap which is often CRV
Central Ministries of the Government a major constraint in developing market
of India have then own International in developing countries. In the case of
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Cooperation Divisions which promote Africa, in addition to such expositions,
bilateral exchanges with their there are now regular India-Africa trade
counterpart in other developing and investment Conclaves, bringing
countries. Such exchanges involve joint potential buyers and sellers as well as
projects, capacity building programmes investment partners together.
and visits of experts, which contribute In recent years, promoting Indian
significantly to South-South Cooperation. investment in other developing countries
has become a major component of South-
South cooperation. The Government of
In additional to the ITEC programme, India, in encouraging such investment,
II.2 Lines of Credit

India’s development cooperation counsels sensitivity to local culture and
also encompasses the extension of environmental concerns. Such ventures
concessional loans and credits as well should bring demonstrable development
as outright grants to partner countries. benefits to the partner country in
These are administered by the Indian terms of employment generation, skills
Ministry of Finance in consultation with development and trade generation. This
the Ministry of External Affairs. These is particularly true of African countries.
Lines of Credit and Grants may be to This Indian record in this respect has
cover specific projects, to provide, in been positive.
a limited number of cases, budgetary
support or emergency disaster relief. III India-Africa Development

India’s relations with the African
Partnership

India’s approach to development continent go back a very long period in
II.3 Trade and Investment

cooperation encompasses the our history, but it is our common struggle
promotion of trade and investment. against colonialism and apartheid that a
Since such cooperation is not conceived more contemporary partnership took
as a donor-recipient or a patron- shape. Since the inception of India’s ITEC
client relationship, our cooperation Programme and its ICCR Scholarship
programmes in developing countries Programme in the nineteen sixties,
CRV
are often designed, as an additional Africa has emerged as one of the India’s
objective, to promote bilateral trade and most important development partners.
IMPEX PVT LTD

investment, which would strengthen In the past 10 years, such partnership
South-South Cooperation and bring has significantly expanded in virtually
mutual economic benefits to the every category. This intensification has
partners. Indian credit lines to some been reflected in the holding of the
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vehicle manufactures to carve out since 2005. In the 6th such conclave
expanding market for trucks and buses. held in 2011, some 800 delegates from
The credit line enables entry into a new 35 African countries attended, including


several heads of state/governments, institutions in Africa, enabling both tele- 1. Education
senior officials and business leaders, education and tele-medicine services. 2. Health
who spent 3 days interacting with their The project cost is $125 million. 3. W
ater and Sanitation
Indian counterparts. The Confederation In recognition of the growing 4. C
ulture and Sports; and
of Indian Industry (CII), which is the importance of India-Africa ties and 5. Poverty Eradication
lead organization for the Conclave, has prospects for much closer development The other broad areas of cooperation
stated: cooperation, it was decided to convene identified are Tourism, Infrastructure,
regular India-Africa Forum Summits and Energy and Environment and finally,
the first such Summit was held in April Media and Communication.
“Over the last six years, projects

2008 in New Delhi, the second in May This Framework for Cooperation
in various areas have been discussed

2011 in Addis Ababa. These Summits is a unique initiative in the history
and implemented. The Conclave has

have “laid the foundation of a new of South-South cooperation, placing
been successfully able to build a bridge

architecture for a structured interaction development cooperation within a much
between Indian and African business

and cooperation between India and our broader context of overall relations
leaders and officials.

African partners in the 21st Century”. between India and African countries.
The Conclave has developed into a

The first Summit adopted a historic It looks at development not merely in
platform that has enhanced the presence

“Africa-India Framework for Cooperation economic terms but as a process that
of “Brand India” in the African countries.

, which sought to foster mutually is sustainable only if located within a
Africa with its Look East policy has also

beneficial cooperation in a very larger political, social and intellectual
found the Conclave a credible access

comprehensive format encompassing environment. India-Africa development
point for appropriate technologies and

It may be noted that India-Africa Economic Political Cooperation, cooperation is conceived in a unique
partners”.

trade expanded from $ 20 billion in Cooperation, Sciences, Technology three-tiered pattern, encompassing
2005-6 to 53 billion in 2010-11 and is Research and Development, Information bilateral, regional and pan-African
targeted to reach $ 90 billion by 2015. and Communication Technology (ICT) cooperation. The regional commissions
India’s development cooperation and Cooperation in Social Development in Africa, such as ECOWAS, COMESA and
with Africa was significantly expanded and Capacity Building.Under Political SADC, are active participants in India-
in 2005, when India became a full Cooperation, the Framework identified Africa cooperation.
member of the Africa Capacity Building a number of areas where India would The document is ambitious in scope
Foundation (ACBF) and was granted support Africa in meeting the latter’s and spells out a fairly detailed road map
observer status in COMESA, SADC objectives of sustainable development, for implementation.
and ECOWAS. A special outreach to prosperity and peace. These are Peace India committed US $ 5.4 billion in
Francophone Africa was launched and Security and Civil Society and Good concessional credits to African countries
through the Team 9 initiative, with a Governance at the Summit.
view to promoting India’s economic To foster S&T cooperation, the As a follow up to the first Forum
engagement with 8 French speaking Framework envisages “robust Summit, an India-Africa Ministerial
countries. A sum of US $ 1 million networks” among leading institutes for meeting was held in New Delhi in
was extended to ACBF towards its collaborative research and development March 2010. A 15-member African
programmes for capacity building and for sharing of experiences Union delegation met together with
sustainable development and poverty in development of appropriate a 42-member Indian delegation
alleviation. To support the Team 9 technologies. A number of specific representing different Ministries,
initiative a line of credit of $ 500 actions were also spelt out to encourage agencies and industry bodies, to chalk
million was announced, along with a ICT collaboration, including the quick out an Action Plan to implement some
$ 200 million credit line to NEPAD. At and effective implementation of the of the key decisions of the Summit and
the initiative of the then President of flagship Pan-African E-Network project also to set a road map for the Second
India, Dr. Kalam, India announced the which India has contributed, towards Summit scheduled in 2012. The meeting
very ambitious Pan-African E-Network overcoming the digital divide in Africa. noted that among the proposals agreed
project (see box 1) which would provide A very broad-ranging collaborative upon at the first Summit over $ 2 billion
digital connectivity across Africa effort is envisaged under the rubric of project were under implementation.
and also link Indian educational and “Cooperation in social Development and Among the specific projects agreed upon
medical institutions with counterpart Capacity Building. These are: to be financed by credits from India


were: specific projects for the participating
1. Setting up of Human Settlement governments to consider for
Institutes in 5 African countries . implementation. Among the meetings
2. Establishment of Vocational Training convened so far are:
Institutes in 10 African countries . »»
India-Africa Business Partnership
3. ndian assistance for a Pan-African
I Summit (October 2011)
Stock Exchange. »»
India-Africa Workshop on
4. $ 300 m credit line would be
A Traditional Medicines (October
made available for financing an 2011)
CRV
infrastructure project under »»
India-Africa Conference on Indian
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regional integration . Lines of Credit (November 2011)
5. Strengthening capacity of the African »»
India-Africa Strategic Dialogue
Court on Human and People’s Rights. (November 2011)
The Second Summit in Addis Ababa »»
3rd India-Africa Hydrocarbon
in May 2011 expressed satisfaction over Conference (December 2011)
the progress made in implementing the »» rafts Skill Development Workshop
C
Framework of Cooperation adopted in for Women (January 2012)
the first Summit and adopted a follow-up »» pecial Session on Global Commons
S
Framework for Enhanced Cooperation. & Challenges (February 2012)
This document agreed to continue and »»
Science & Technology Ministers’
expand cooperation in the various areas Conference (March 2012)
identified at the first Summit, while »» raining programme for Secretary
T
identifying a few new initiatives to be Generals of African Chambers of
pursued. Commerce and Industry.
It may be noted that in order
to ensure early implementation of
recommendations emanating from India’s support to African countries
III.1 ITEC

these summits, several conferences and through ITEC training slots may be seen
workshops have been organized in the in the following Figure1:
period September 2011 to March 2012. However, ITEC covers only part of
These conferences/workshops a much larger range of civilian training
have come up with a number of courses made available to African

CRV
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»» pecial training courses (500 per
S
year): 449 and 929 utilised in 2010-
Table 1: Civilian Training courses under ITEC and other Multilateral Schemes
2011-12 2010-11 2009-10 2008-09 2007-08 11 and 2011-12.
1. Afro-Asian Rural 70 55 55 55 50
Development Organisation III.3 Capacity building

As per decisions taken at the India-Africa
2. Union
African 30 13 13 13 10 institutions

Forum Summits, India has committed
3. Pan African Parliament 20 5 5 5 3

to establishing about 100 capacity-
4. UNECA (UN Economic 30 15 15 15 10

building institutions to build and
Commission for Africa

strengthen capacities at the pan-African,
5. East African Community 25 10 10 10 10

regional and bilateral levels. Some of
6. Commonwealth Secretariat 75 75 75 75 75

the key institutions in the process of
250 173 173 173 158

implementation are listed below :

»» ndia-Africa Institute of Information
I
Technology, Ghana
»» India-Africa Institute of Foreign
Trade, Ghana, Uganda
»» India-Africa Institute of Education
Planning and Administration,
Burundi
»» India-Africa Diamond Institute,
Botswana
»» ndia-Africa Civil Aviation Academy
I
(location to be decided)
»» ndia-Africa Institute of Agriculture
I
and Rural Development (location to
be decided)
»» ndia-Africa University for Life and
I
Earth Sciences – Ibadan University,
Nigeria

Another major contribution to
capacity building in Africa is India’s
commitment to set up 10 vocational

countries both under bilateral as well as training centres in Burkina Faso,
multilateral schemes (see Figure 2 and Burundi, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gabon,
Table 2: Profile of ICCR
Table 1.) Gambia, Libya, Mozambique, Rwanda
Scholarshipsinclude airfare

and Zimbabwe.
An Apex Planning Organization for
Year Seats allocated Seats utilized

Coal is being established in Mozambique,
III.2 Scholarships & 2009-10 532 238

India also offers a number of scholarships which will also providing training in
Fellowships 2010-11 532 207

and fellowships to students from Africa. mining technology.
2011-12 532 207

The figures for the past 4 years may be Another unique area of cooperation
2012-13 900 Admission
process is

seen in the Table 2. These scholars and between India and Africa relates to
underway

fellowships include travel expenses. 11 and 2011-12. 102 applications the setting up of Human Settlement

»» ICCR Scholarships at Indian under process for 2012-13. Institutes in D.R. of Congo, Kenya,
Universities »» .V. Raman Scientific Fellowships
C Mauritania, Togo and Zambia to deal in
»» pecial agricultural scholarships (75
S (104 per year): 85 and 79 utilised in a multi-disciplinary manner with the
per year): 71 and 85 utilised in 2010- 2010-11 and 2011-12. challenge of rapid urbanization.


India has also launched an initiative
of establishing and strengthening
Table 5: India-Africa Trade
common infrastructure and facilities for
In US $ Million

pan-African development of some key
Year Exports Imports Total

industry sectors. Examples are:
2005-06 7.00 4.80 11.80

»» ndia-Africa Food Processing Cluster
I
2006-07 10.26 17.72 27.98

»» ndia-Africa Textile Cluster
I
2007-08 14.19 20.47 34.66

The location of these clusters is
2008-09 14.82 24.73 39.55

under discussion.
2009-10 13.43 25.61
2010-11 20.85 31.95
39.04
52.80
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trade has seen significant growth over
»» ines of Credit (LoCs) have been an
L the last 6 years (see table 5).
III.4 Lines of Credit

increasingly significant part of India-
Africa development cooperation
since 2003-04. The role of large emerging economies
Conclusion
»» They are concessional loans intended as a source of development funds
to set up infrastructure projects and technology transfer has become
and to share Indian experience in increasingly more salient. South-South
developmental initiatives. cooperation is playing a more significant
»» oCs have financed a wide range of
L role in international development than
projects in agriculture, irrigation, ever before as the ongoing financial
food processing, rural electrification, and economic crisis is taking its toll
IT and infrastructure such as roads, on the provision of financial and
railways, cement and power. technical resources from traditional
»» The objective is to create durable donor countries to the developing
assets and build sustainable world. Such resource transfers are
institutions. either flat or even declining. But even
before the crisis the relative share of
OECD countries in resource transfers
to developing countries was already
Table 4: Year-wise approvals and

decreasing in percentage terms. This
disbursements of Credit to Africa

trend has only sharpened. In the recent
[as on March 23, 2012]

past, an OECD Report has found that
USD million
Year Approval Disbursed

spending on development assistance
2002-03 10.00 -

by the world’s major economies has
2003-04 100.00 -

fallen for the first time since 1997. With
2004-05 99.87 49.90

there being little likelihood of an early
2005-06 1052.60 97.52

upturn in the advanced economies of
2006-07 141.50 234.72

US, Europe and Japan, it is expected
2007-08 524.50 338.50

that development assistance may fall CRV
2008-09 470.10 288.00

further from current levels precisely at
2009-10 486.50 352.66

a time when the challenge of poverty
IMPEX PVT LTD
2010-11 1055.07 398.95

alleviation and eradication in the most
2011-12 1189.41 380.38

vulnerable countries in the world is ever
Grand Total 5129.55 2140.64

more daunting than before.Developing

countries in Africa are the worst affected.
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India-Africa Trade
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21 out of 34 African LDCs have acceded assistance is only a small proportion
Promotion
to the India-Africa Duty Free Tariff of total financial flows to developing
Preference (DFTP) Scheme.India-Africa countries. India has enhanced both


its concessional assistance as well as development cooperation. Nevertheless
investment into Africa so as to make a countries of the North and South would
Ghana-India Kofi Annan
modest contribution to the development find a number of areas where they could
Centre of Excellence in ICT
of partner countries in the continent. join hands together in delivering much
In recent years, there have been more meaningful and effective support
Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of

efforts to promote a collaborative to the development of developing
Excellence in ICT, Ghana’s first Advanced

approach among emerging countries countries, particularly in Africa. For
Information Technology Institute works

and traditional donors to meet the example, some of the aid agencies
to stimulate growth of ICT Sector in

challenge of international development. of OECD countries and multilateral
ECOWAS. Established in 2003 through a

The Busan conference convened in institutions such as the World Bank
partnership between the Govt. of Ghana

2011 was a landmark meeting in this and UNDP, utilise the capacity building
and Govt. of India, the State of the art

regard.. It brought together all the major infrastructure available in India, to
facility provides a dynamic environment

train a large number of personnel
for innovation, teaching and learning

stakeholders together to deliberate on
as well as practical research on the

the issue of cooperation for development. from African countries through joint
application of ICT4D in Africa. info@aiti-

In addition to traditional donor countries, programmes. This practice could be
kace.com.gh.

representatives of emerging economies, extended in consultation with the
non-governmental organisations and other, on the question of development recipient countries.
philanthropic institutions were also cooperation. In view of these differences, In this context, exchange of
present. What became abundantly clear it was agreed that traditional donor experiences and best practices among
at Busan, however, were the differences countries and the new development development partners both from
in the approach, modality and norms actors may find it difficult to agree the North and the South including
followed by OECD countries on the one upon certain common global norms and multilateral institutions would be both
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On the eve of
64th Republic Day
of India

powerful public-private partnership rate has more than tripled. The literacy
On the eve of our 64th Republic Day, I nourished by justice, liberty and equality. rate has increased by over four times.
My Fellow Citizens:
extend warm greetings to all of you in India did not win freedom from the After having attained self-sufficiency,
India and abroad. I convey my special British in order to deny freedom to now we are net exporters of food-grain.
greetings to members of our armed Indians. The Constitution represented Significant reduction in the incidence of
forces, paramilitary forces and internal a second liberation, this time from the poverty has been achieved. Among our
security forces. stranglehold of traditional inequity in other major achievements is the drive
gender, caste, community, along with towards gender equality.
India has changed more in last six decades other fetters that had chained us for too
than in six previous centuries. This is long. No one suggested this would be easy.
neither accidental nor providential; The difficulties that accompanied the
history shifts its pace when touched This inspired a Cultural Evolution first quantum leap, the Hindu code bill,
by vision. The great dream of raising a which put Indian society on the track to enacted in 1955 tell their own story. It
new India from the ashes of colonialism modernity: society changed in a gradual needed the unflinching commitment
reached a historic denouement in evolution, for violent revolution is not the of leaders like Jawaharlal Nehru
1947; more important, independence Indian way. Change across the knotted and Babasaheb Ambedkar to push
became a turning point for an equally weaves of the social fabric remains a through this remarkable legislation.
dramatic narrative, nation-building. work in progress, impelled by periodic Jawaharlal Nehru would later describe
The foundations were laid through our reform in law and the momentum of this as perhaps the most important
Constitution, adopted on 26 January popular will. achievement of his life. The time has now
1950, which we celebrate each year as come to ensure gender equality for every
Republic Day. Its driving principle was In the last six decades there is much that Indian woman. We can neither evade nor
a compact between state and citizen, a we can be proud of. Our economic growth abandon this national commitment, for


the price of neglect will be high. Vested Has corruption overtaken morality in of frontiers. But sponsorship of terrorism
interests do not surrender easily. The public life? Does our legislature reflect through non-state actors is a matter of
civil society and the government must emerging India or does it need radical deep concern to the entire nation. We
work together to fulfill this national goal. reforms? These doubts have to be set at believe in peace on the border and are
rest. Elected representatives must win always ready to offer a hand in the hope
back the confidence of the people. The of friendship. But this hand should not be
I speak to you when a grave tragedy has anxiety and restlessness of youth has taken for granted.
Fellow Citizens:
shattered complacency. The brutal rape to be channelized towards change with
and murder of a young woman, a woman speed, dignity and order.
who was symbol of all that new India India’s most impregnable asset is self-
Fellow Citizens:
strives to be, has left our hearts empty The young cannot dream on an empty belief. Each challenge becomes an
and our minds in turmoil. We lost more stomach. They must have jobs capable of opportunity to strengthen our resolve to
than a valuable life; we lost a dream. If serving their own as well as the nation’s achieve unprecedented economic growth
today young Indians feel outraged, can ambitions. It is true that we have come and social stability. Such resolve must be
we blame our youth? a long way from 1947, when our first nourished by an avalanche of investment,
Budget had revenue of just over Rs.171 particularly in better and greater
There is a law of the land. But there is also crore. The resource base of the Union education. Education is the ladder that
a higher law. The sanctity of a woman is government today is an ocean compared can help those at the bottom to rise to
a directive principle of that larger edifice to that drop. But we must ensure that the pinnacles of professional and social
called Indian civilization. The Vedas the fruits of economic growth do not status. Education is the mantra that can
say that there is more than one kind become the monopoly of the privileged transform our economic fortunes and
of mother: birth mother, a guru’s wife, at the peak of a pyramid. The primary eliminate the gaps that have made our
a king’s wife, a priest’s wife, she who purpose of wealth creation must be to society unequal. So far education has not
nurses us, and our motherland. Mother is drive out the evil of hunger, deprivation reached, to the extent desired, to those
our protection from evil and oppression, and marginal subsistence from the base most in need of this ladder. India can
our symbol of life and prosperity. When of our expanding population. double its growth rate by turning today’s
we brutalize a woman, we wound the disadvantaged into multiple engines of
soul of our civilization. economic development.
Last year has been a testing time for
Fellow Citizens:
It is time for the nation to reset its moral us all. As we move ahead on the path On our 64th Republic Day, there may be
compass. Nothing should be allowed to of economic reforms, we must remain some reason for concern, but none for
spur cynicism, as cynicism is blind to alive to the persisting problems of despair. If India has changed more in six
morality. We must look deep into our market-dependent economies. Many rich decades than six previous centuries, then
conscience and find out where we have nations are now trapped by a culture of I promise you that it will change more in
faltered. The solutions to problems have entitlement without social obligations; the next ten years than in the previous
to be found through discussion and we must avoid this trap. The results of sixty. India’s enduring vitality is at work.
conciliation of views. People must believe our policies should be seen in our villages, Even the British sensed that they were
that governance is an instrument for farms and factories, schools and hospitals. leaving a land which was very different
good and for that, we must ensure good Figures mean nothing to those who from the one they had occupied. At the
governance. do not benefit from them. We must act base of the Jaipur Column in Rashtrapati
immediately, otherwise the current Bhavan there is an inscription:
pockets of conflict, often described as “In thought faith...
We are on the cusp of another generational “Naxalite” violence, could acquire far In word wisdom...
Fellow Citizens:
change; the youth of India spread across more dangerous dimensions. In deed courage...
villages and towns, are in the vanguard In life service...
of change. The future belongs to them. So may India be great”
They are today troubled by a range of In the recent past, we have seen serious
Fellow Citizens:
existential doubts. Does the system offer atrocities on the Line of Control on The spirit of India is written in stone.
due reward for merit? Have the powerful our troops. Neighbours may have
lost their Dharma in pursuit of greed? disagreements; tension can be a subtext JAI HIND!


SPOTLIGHT
COUNTRY-ZAMBIA

ZAMBIA A BECKONING INVESTMENT DESTINATION

Mining Tourism
Zambia is the world’s fourth largest producer of copper and holds six percent The tourism industry has grown over the recent past years,
of the world’s known reserves thereof. Copper and cobalt, as the country’s with the establishment of hotels in the major tourist town of
traditional exports account for well over 70 percent of export earnings. These Livingstone and the city of Lusaka. The vast potential in the
include gold and gemstones (e.g. emeralds, aquamarine, topaz, opal, agate and tourism sector in Zambia, with its natural beauty (including
amethysts). Zambia produces over 20% of the world’s emeralds. the Victoria Falls, which is one of the most renowned beautiful
transcendental Seven Natural Wonders of the World) and the
wealth of wildlife have yet to be fully exploited.
Agriculture Manufacturing
Although the agricultural sector The main manufacturing activities
employs more than half of the total in Zambia are the Food, Beverages
labour force, only 15 percent of the and Tobacco sub-sector. However Energy
arable land is under cultivation. It the growth potential in other With its vast water resources and coal reserves, Zambia
is because of this potential that the industries as well is vast. Support offers abundant investment opportunities for hydroelectric
government encourages investment measures designed to aid power generation, supply and distribution. The country has
in commercial farming and has manufacturing enterprises in well over 1,890 MW of hydroelectric generating capacity.
established farm blocks to facilitate non-traditional sectors are being Proven coal reserves exceed 30 million tonnes and satisfy
investments in agriculture. implemented. 9 per cent of energy demand.

Health
Government and private hospitals and clinics provide health care. Major surgery cases are usually referred to the Republic of South Africa.
Investment opportunities for establishing specialized hospitals to treat such referral cases are, therefore, unexploited.


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