Who will add value in Africa? Who will cure? Who will build?

From AfricaCan End Poverty Mon Sep 29 2014, 19:49:00

​From my seat as an Education economist at the World Bank, I go through a number of strategies from countries and sectors in Africa outlining how best to achieve economic growth and development. I am repeatedly struck by a key question: Who will do it? Who will add value to African exports? Who will build? Who will invent? Who will cure? The answer is, of course, that graduates from African universities and training institutions should do it. But the problem is one of numbers and quality--there are simply not enough graduates in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), and programs are of uneven quality.

 

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