UNCTAD [to 12 July 2014]
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Africa must broaden sources of growth and investment to create employment and reduce poverty
Geneva, Switzerland, (03 July 2014)
Simply increasing the quantity of investment in Africa will not be sufficient to achieve transformational growth, UNCTAD’s Economic Development in Africa Report 20141 argues. Increasing the productivity or quality of investment and ensuring that it goes to strategic and priority sectors of an economy – such as infrastructure, agriculture and manufacturing – are key.
Subtitled Catalysing Investment for Transformative Growth in Africa, the report says that Africa cannot achieve sustained economic growth and transformation without diversifying the sources of its economic growth both on the demand and supply sides of its economies…