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01 / evaluation
“I agree, but again, what I’ve read in World Bank reports suggests that situation is still bad, but better than it was 10 and 20 years ago.”
02 / evaluation
“Yes, the whole approach of targeting cheap money at manufacturing, putting some protection in place, rewarding exporters of manufactured goods — it’s created jobs, it’s raised the technological level at which the economy operates, and there’s really no substitute for it because, as has been shown, manufacturing is the only bit of the economy that really delivers the convergence that we’re supposed to get across the whole economy and the sort of orthodox view of life.”
03 / evaluation
“On energy costs — these have traditionally been very high in Africa because there has not been the investment in energy, but with the development of massively reduced cost for solar and wind, actually, things look quite good, and the development of geothermal as well.”
04 / evaluation
“— and they were misconceived, not least actually, in relation to demographics, because there were projects which actually needed more labor and bigger markets than were there.”
05 / evaluation
“The Nigerian Delta is more densely populated than most parts of Africa. And it reminds us that population density or increased population density alone is not enough to solve all of Africa’s problems, because Nigeria’s been a country plagued with problems since independence.”
06 / evaluation
“Also, in garmenting and in textiles, robots don’t work very well because they can’t work with material very well.”