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adoption and
transformation. delivery. The ore Kenya Revenue
Important lessons researchers will Authority officials It emerged that a power
emerging from the East also be trained have been sent to outage paralysed KRA’s
Asian experience are on how to write the port of Mombasa to clear Simba system, compound-
that the transformation policy briefs from ing the cargo backlog
of the structure of a their work based
cargo backlog.
predominantly agrarian, Clearance delays were caused problem at the port of
on the project
semi-subsistence titeld by the recent breakdown of the Mombasa. The system was
economy cannot be Reproductive Simba system and a directive installed in 2005 to seal
achieved without Health, A section of participants during a biannual to weigh cargo at the point of loopholes through which
Resource persons attentively listen to substantial increases in Economic research workshop in Mombasa, Kenya
loading. billions of shillings in rev-
presentations in a recent biannual workshop agricultural productivity. Growth and
A mobile weighbridge that enue previously leaked.
Second, the structural Poverty Reduction in Africa.
transformation process • A joint AERC/AfDB, Brookings, UNU-WIDER project on Industrialization: Kenya National Highway Au-
must take advantage of the positive interactions between agricultural and Learning to Compete will also be held on May 26-28, 2011. thority recently introduced could even be more than 18,”
industrial development. • There will also be a workshop on Understanding the Links between outside Gate 18 has increased commissioner in charge of
Africa has a rich supply of natural resources and primary export products, but
Growth and Poverty on May 27-28, 2011. the number of trucks coming communications at KRA
only a tiny core of industrial skills. The stock of skills and technical knowledge to the port since each vehicle is Kennedy Onyonyi said.
Special sesssions will be conducted on various topics on different days:
needed to manage these industries has grown, but not rapidly enough to lead no longer carrying two 20-foot The truck drivers are
• Status of Women in the Economic Profession with Emphasis on
to substantial gains in efficiency. Though Africa has witnessed improved growth
Opportunities for Women in Research and Post-Graduate Training in containers as happened in the spending more than 16 hours,
rates in the last couple of years and its development prospects appear much past since this would lead to according to the chairman of
Economics by Julliet Elu, NEADE on May 30, 2011.
brighter, poverty reduction remains a major challenge. The good news is that overloading fines. the Heavy Commercial Vehicle
• Leveraging Migration for Africa: Remittances, Skills and Investments: A
industrialization can contribute to poverty reduction by increasing opportunities
for employment, skills acquisition, and increasing incomes.
joint AfDB/World Bank publication by Abebe Shimeles, AfDB on May 31, “The port has been expe- Workers Union, Mr Moham-
2011. riencing truck congestion med Bahero.
Due to the foregoing, Industrialization and Structural Transformation in Africa • Opening up to the World Bank: the World Bank’s Open data Initiative by
following the introduction The port is also experienc-
is the theme of the 34th plenary session of the African Economic Research Thomas Danielewitz, World Bank on May 24-26, 2011.
• Climate Change and Economic Development by Channing Arndt, UNU- of the weighbridge since a ing berthing constraints due
Consortium’s (AERC) Biannual Research Workshop, which opens at 9:00
am on Sunday. May 29, 2011 at the Safari Park Hotel, Nairobi, Kenya. The WIDER transporter will now need to the rehabilitation of berth
session will feature four presentations by distinguished economists. Celestine to send two trucks to pick 18 that has been going on
Monga, World Bank, will start off the proceedings with a look at Igniting AERC is a leader in policy-oriented economic research in the continent, two 20-foot containers,” said since January this year, with
Structural Transformation in Africa. Next will be Industrialization for Structural and its biannual research workshops have become the largest gatherings Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) completion expected by the
Transformation in Africa: Role of the State by Ernest Aryeetey, University of professional economists in sub-Saharan Africa. The Consortium was communications manager end of this year.
of Ghana. The third paper, Can Africa Industrialize? will be by John Page, established in 1988 as a public not-for-profit organi≠zation devoted to
building capacity for economic policy research into problems pertinent to
Bernard Osero. Berth 18 will also be ex-
Brookings Institution, USA and the final paper on Size of Firms and Structural
Change will be presented by Måns Söderbom, University of Gothenburg. the management of economies in sub-Saharan Africa. This is carried out Last weekend, truck drivers tended, although it was
through two main programmes: research and training. In response to the protested for five hours outside supposed to have been done in
Discussions on these special needs of the region, the AERC Research Programme uses a flexible Gate 18 over delays. After the 2006. KPA has already started
papers will be led by approach to improve the technical skills of local researchers, allow for intervention by security per- the process in bid to handle
Akpan Ekpo, WAIFEM, regional determination of research priorities, strengthen national institutions sonnel, the ports authority and larger vessels at the port.
Nigeria, Machiko concerned with economic policy research, and facilitate closer ties between
researchers and policy makers. The Training Programme augments the pool
KRA, it was agreed that the Once the extension is com-
Nissanke, University of
London, UK, Channing of economic researchers in sub-Saharan Africa by supporting collaborative taxman should send 18 more pleted, the port will be able to
Arndt, University graduate programmes in economics – at both master’s and PhD levels – as officials to speed up clearing handle three ships instead of
of Copenhagen, well as improving the capacities of departments of economics and agricultural of goods. the current two, Mr Osero said,
Denmark and and applied economics in public universities. AERC is supported by donor “We have since sent to Mom- adding, there will be no backlog
Remco Oostendorp, governments, private foundations and international organizations. basa staff from other locations, by the end of this week.
Free University including Nairobi. The number By Tuesday, the yard had
Participants at a biannual workshop session of Amsterdam,
14,000 20-foot containers
14,000
For more information about this workshop or AERC, please contact: compared to 15,571 recorded
The Executive Director on Sunday.
African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) Deliveries to the local con-
Middle East Bank Towers, 3rd Floor, Milimani Road, tainer freight stations has not
Tel: (254-20) 273-4150 / 273-4157, Fax: (254-20) 273-4173 Number of 20-foot containers yet reached the expected level
exec.dir@aercafrica.org or communications@aercafrica.org in yard on Tuesday compared of 1,000. Some 744 deliveries
www.aercafrica.org to 15,571 on Sunday have been recorded.