Thursday, 12 May 2016

Getting a High Five: Advancing Africa’s transformative agenda (John Page, Brookings)

Reuters/Tiksa Negeri - A partial view shows workers at the Pittards world class leather manufacturing company in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa, March 22, 2015. Picture taken March 22, 2016.

At his swearing in, the new African Development Bank President Akinwumi Adesina set out an agenda for the economic transformation of the continent. Among the five pillars of that agenda—popularly known as the “high fives”—is one that may have surprised many, especially in the donor community: Industrialize Africa.

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/future-development/posts/2016/05/12-sub-saharan-africa-transformational-agenda-page

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