Quantum Global group is currently bolstering its thought
leadership and media relations expansion plans with a significant drive to
support high level African focused research aimed at contributing to the
continent’s fast moving growth narrative.
In September this year, Quantum Global group Advisory Board
member Célestin Monga co-authored, The Oxford Handbook of Africa and Economics
(published by Oxford University Press) in partnership with Justin Yifu Lin of
the National School of Development at Peking University.
The publication also featured contributions from academic
luminaries including Nobel laureates Joseph Stiglitz (Columbia University) and
Roger Myerson (University of Chicago), and prominent economists such as Jeffrey
Sachs Columbia University), Paul Collier (University of Oxford), Ha-joon Chang
(University of Cambridge), Kaushik Basu (World Bank), Francois Bourguignon
(Paris School of Economics), Ernest Aryeetey (University of Ghana), Mustapha
Nabli (former Central Bank Governor of Tunisia) and Julia Cagé (Sciences-Po,
Paris).
Launched in Vienna on December 1 during the 2015 UNIDO
General Conference and deploying significant portions of research supported by
Quantum Global group Founder, Mr Jean Claude Bastos De Morais, the Handbook
represents a stellar piece of distinguished academic analysis exploring a raft
of economic and socio-political underpinnings of Africa’s growing global
significance.
Mr Monga, a former Senior Economic Advisor and Director at
the World Bank, joined the United Nations Industrial Development Organization
as Managing Director in January 2015. A
long standing pro-bono Advisory Board member at the Quantum Global group and a
Cameroonian national, he is recognized as one of the world’s foremost thinkers
on African economics and socio-economic dynamics.
In the wake of that undertaking, Quantum Global group has
recently collaborated with the prominent UK based think tank the Official
Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF) - an independent platform for
dialogue and research in global finance and economics - to produce a further
far reaching publication The Convergence of Nations due to be launched at a
ceremony in London on December 10th.
This new publication – edited by Quantum Global group
Founder Mr Jean Claude Bastos De Morais – brings together the work of 31 of the
world’s foremost authorities on global and regional economics whose
individually authored chapters address topics essential to sustainable African
economic growth and the future role of Africa’s sovereigns in the global
economy.
Seeking to identify the essential strands of the emergent
African capitalist model, the publication also hones in and examines the key
challenges facing fast growing African states including corruption, disease and
terrorist conflicts. It also addresses the potential offered by the so-called
‘demographic dividend’ offered by Africa’s young, dynamic and increasingly
well-educated population as well as analysing the rapidly improving levels of
transparency, governance and representative politics.
In the foreword, Akinwumi Adesina, president of the African
Development Bank, writes:
‘As always, Africa must aim high. This time we can and we
will achieve our aims. This expertly written book will heighten international
understanding of and interest in our continent. This is a compellingly
realistic summary of all the big themes affecting Africa’s future, and I warmly
commend it.’
The Quantum Global group and its Founder, Jean Claude Bastos
De Morais, is fully committed to coupling the group’s investment activities
with a suite of carefully targeted projects and strategic platforms designed to
bolster constructive African dialogue and support the growth and development of
African society, economics and civic society.
Mark Morley,
Group Head of Communications.
Tel: +41 798707039
Email: mark.morley@quantumglobal.ch
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