RENEW Strategies

Ed Cropley and Ben Hirschler of Reuters filed a special report on Africa from Davos last week. I've included a brief excerpt below. Note that the long-term "buy" recommendation, that analysts gave before the financial crisis, persists.

Observations here in Uganda continue to confirm our thoughts about the value addition Renew offers to businesses in Africa. Our ability to provide management consulting expertise to growing enterprises is not only sought after by our investment clients, but by the local leaders whose businesses they fund. Many business owners and local executives are desperate for a management-class workforce here in Uganda— managers that understand and apply analytical thinking to solve the many problems that arise daily in the developing world as a business grows.