{"id":25309,"date":"2010-04-13T15:55:30","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T19:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=25309"},"modified":"2018-06-04T09:23:06","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T13:23:06","slug":"sene-africa-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2010\/04\/13\/sene-africa-investment\/","title":{"rendered":"In The Huffington Post, Sene &#039;00 addresses Africa&#039;s economic &#039;missing middle&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2010\/04\/fall09-magazine-quad-angles-sene00-2009.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"227\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2010\/04\/fall09-magazine-quad-angles-sene00-2009-227x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignright\" alt=\"fall09-magazine-quad-angles-sene00-2009\" \/><\/a> In their co-written article in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/j-skyler-fernandes\/investing-in-africa-defin_b_534767.html\"><em>The Huffington Post<\/em><\/a>, authors Lena Sene &#8217;00 and J. Skyler Fernandes address Africa&#8217;s &#8220;missing middle,&#8221; a term that can describe the scarcity of small and medium enterprises in African countries as well as the lack of capital targeted at SMEs. &#8220;No matter what the term&#8230;refers to,&#8221; they write, &#8220;a thriving SME base leads to substantial economic and social growth, and explains why this issue is so important to Africa and the developing world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The authors address their call to action to U.S. banks: &#8220;Wall Street banks that already have a presence in emerging markets could and should both reshape their missions and improve their images by adopting a more social oriented and yet profitable approach to investing.&#8221; Sene, a former <a href=\"http:\/\/georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov\/fellows\/alumni\/2006-07.html\">White House Fellow<\/a> who earned an M.B.A. from Harvard in 2009 , is completing the mid-career master&#8217;s in public administration program at Harvard&#8217;s Kennedy School. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/j-skyler-fernandes\/investing-in-africa-defin_b_534767.html\">View story from <em>The Huffington<\/em> Post, April 13, 2010.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In their co-written article in The Huffington Post, authors Lena Sene &#8217;00&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[7,11009],"tags":[10771,11051,3117],"class_list":["post-25309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-the-college","tag-africa","tag-bates-in-the-news","tag-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25309"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88036,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25309\/revisions\/88036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}