Africa’s Future Depends on Innovation, Data, and Frontier Technologies

Africa’s Future Depends on Innovation, Data, and Frontier Technologies

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, April 17 (IPS) - Across the continent, GDP has risen on the back of more workers, more capital and a commodity super-cycle, rather than through genuine gains in productivity and innovation. Too little labour has moved out of subsistence agriculture into higher-productivity manufacturing and modern services.

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