Globalization 4.0 must provide for the poorest, or it risks causing chaos for everyone

Jan 9, 2019

A woman carries a child and a bag on her head within the trading centre of the U.S. President Barack Obama's ancestral village of Nyang'oma Kogelo, west of Kenya's capital Nairobi, July 15, 2015. President Obama visits Kenya and Ethiopia in July, his third major trip to Sub-Saharan Africa after travelling to Ghana in 2009 and to Tanzania, Senegal and South Africa in 2011. He has also visited Egypt, in North Africa, and South Africa for Nelson Mandela's funeral. Obama will be welcomed by a continent that had expected closer attention from a man they claim as their son, a sentiment felt acutely in the Kenyan village where the 44th U.S. president's father is buried. Picture taken July 15, 2015. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya - GF10000168089

By 2030, one in five children in sub-Saharan Africa will be living in poverty Image: REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya

Sara Pantuliano

Chief Executive, Overseas Development Institute

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