Africa Must Ensure Growth for the Poor

9 December 2014
opinion

Blind exuberance and naïve optimism have trumped honest commentary on Africa's growth and boom story. Do not get me wrong. Africa is on the ascent, economically. The ranks of the urban consumer middle class are growing. There is money to be made in Afric

For a majority of Africans, the Africa rising narrative is hollow. Africa's growth is intangible for over half a billion men and women trapped in moribund rural economies. For nearly 70 per cent of Africa's youth who lack skills Africa's growth is intangible. For the hundreds of millions of women who eke out a living in unproductive agricultural fields and whose small-scale business are starved of credit, Africa rising is empty words.

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