Kandeh K. Yumkella is Director General of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization.
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Kandeh K. Yumkella
Commentaries by Kandeh K. Yumkella
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Power and Progress
VIENNA/OSLO – We grew up in entirely different regions of the world: one in Norway, the other in Sierra Leone. The gap between our two count…
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Sustaining Women
NEW YORK – The United Nations “Rio+20” Earth Summit this month will be a staging ground to chart the course for inclusive economies, social …
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Lighting the Dark Continent
NAIROBI – Nineteenth-century European explorers called Africa the “Dark Continent,” because to them it was vast and largely unknown. Today, …
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Chocolate-Fueled Growth
VIENNA – As an African, my dream for the next decade is to see the continent producing and selling chocolate to 300 million Chinese, instead…
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South of the Revolution
PRETORIA – Over dinner in Algiers recently, we asked each other whether the youth-led revolutions unfolding in northern Africa presage the a…
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The Renewable Future
NAIROBI – Renewable energy triggers sharply polarized views. For some, it is a costly white elephant; for others, it is humanity’s savior, p…
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Defying the Garden of Eden Syndrome
ACCRA – When you fly into Takoradi, Ghana’s fourth largest city and an industrial and commercial center, one of the first things you notice …
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Power to the People
MEXICO CITY – If you are reading this article, you most likely have electricity and heat at home and never think of that fact as at all rema…
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Renewed Hope for Renewable Energy
VIENNA – A decade ago, renewable energy was viewed as an unwelcome offspring of fossil fuels, but the recent establishment of the Internatio…
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Don’t Shut the Door on Africa
VIENNA – These days, a dollar won’t get you very far in a rich economy. But in a poor country like the one I come from, Sierra-Leone, even h…
