The ACP-EU Courier | Number 7 (August-September 2008)

Summary:

This issue of the ACP-EU Courier magazine includes the following items:

• Editorial
  • Global fears in a global world
• To the point
  • Strengthening the major partnerships
• Round up
• Viewpoints
  • Media and Development: a new field of action for Europe-Africa partnership?
• Dossier
  • ACP Stock Markets
    • Missing out on an opportunity?
    • Africa's hidden value
    • South Pacific Stock Exchange grows slowly
    • Kenya: Seeking to become a regional hub
    • NSE reaches out
    • Caribbean: Into a headwind
    • Nigeria Stock Exchange: Holding up
• Interaction
  • High stakes at ACP summit
  • A look back at a first historic summit
  • When is the Pacific 'un-pacific'?
  • European Development Days. The countdown ahs begun
  • ACP wants Doha gains secured
  • APRODEV: More competences for the ACP states before the final EPAs
  • CONCORD, a voice for European NGOs
  • A bigger regional drive
• Trade
  • SAcope for Africa-China-EU policy
  • Japan. Competing for trade and geopolitical influence
  • EU policy for all Africa's friends?
  • The Brazilian ambiguity
• Zoom
  • From the boxing ring to the political and social arena
• Our Planet
  • The vital challenge of renewable energy
• Report
  • Madagascar
    • A remarkable history
    • "We want to set an example for other ACP countries"
    • "An area of stability where resources can be mobilised for development"
    • "Turning the economy around"
    • Natural resources that need managing
    • Decentralisation. ACORDS: A Pioneering Programme
    • "The MAP doesn't take enough account of social problems"
    • Education: Highly sensitive reforms
    • Creating greater congruence between human and natural systems
    • A Malagasy medley
• Discovering Europe
  • Martinique
    • Attractions beyond the cliches
    • For-de-France, a city to experience, not to consume
    • In the footsteps of Aime Cesaire
    • Martinique-Apparent opulence and economic fragility
    • Heading towards a definite yet hazy form of autonomy?
    • Martinique-poorly organised but well equipped
    • Fort-de-France's Festival of Culture
    • The whole world should be in the movies
• Creativity
  • The blogs: a meeting room for African cartoonists
  • Cultural Crossroads: the ZIFF festival
  • 'Ethnopassion'-Peggy Guggenheim's ethnic collection
• For Young Readers
• Goor's savings
• Your Say/Calendar