Joe Studwell: belief

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…But how much output they produce is what matters, right? And it’s evidence that there’re feeder systems. If you can produce some number of very, very, very good people, your feeder systems must also be doing pretty well, at least some of them. Yes, but there’s also a question of timing. I think that the point that you make about very high performing institutions in Africa begins to become more relevant now. The order of priorities in Africa after 1960 was to get the population literate and numerate, and that’s where resources went. Now there’s a change. Yes, Africa, going forward, needs really elite universities. There’s the beginning of efforts to create that in Rwanda, where there’re a couple of US universities that have gotten involved in the random tertiary education system. I hear what you say, but I think that’s a problem for Africa going forward and not a problem around which we should judge Africa today. We agree that disease burden is very important. Which do you think are a few countries making the most progress on that?…

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