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Keeping Africa on track for the 21st century

Whether it can develop like Asia hangs on how it taps its biggest resource - its young population.

Published Wed, Dec 10, 2014 · 09:50 PM

New Haven, Connecticut

AFRICA's emergence as an economic force is no longer an expression of hope or just a matter of faith. So much has changed since March 2000, when The Economist declared Africa "a hopeless continent". By December 2011, the same magazine proclaimed "Africa Rising", with a real chance to follow in the footsteps of Asia.

Africa's challenges are in the public domain: Only one in four Africans has acce…

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