Africa"s growth and competitiveness in 2007 : African global competitiveness initiative

Organized by the four components of AGCI -- enabling environment policy reform, enterprise development, finance, and infrastructure -- the report presents a year in review of USAID"s trade competitiveness programs in sub-Saharan Africa. It provides examples of the activities undertaken and the results achieved. AGCI is broad in scope, funding activities that have an impact in all 40 countries eligible to trade under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA). Given the breadth of AGCI, this report necessarily omits reference to every activity in every country. Rather, it describes the major activities and results achieved in each of AGCI"s four components and describes how the four types of organizations that implement AGCI programs -- USAID/Washington, regional USAID missions, bilateral USAID missions and U.S. Government (USG) partner agencies -- advance AGCI"s overarching goals. AGCI has achieved success in a broad range of African countries. For this report, we highlight examples from three of AGCI"s bilateral programs in very different countries to illustrate the type of work undertaken and results achieved: (1) Ethiopia, which has programs in enabling environment policy reform and enterprise development; (2) Mozambique, which uses AGCI funds for enabling environment and finance programs; and (3) Senegal, which is focused on the enabling environment and enterprise development. (Author abstract)