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What Hong Kong and Singapore can teach Africa on how to become an economic powerhouse

Ethiopian refugees who fled Tigray region, board courtesy buses at the Fashaga camp as they are transferred to Um-Rakoba camp on the Sudan-Ethiopia border, in Kassala state, Sudan December 13, 2020. REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah - RC2LMK9P4QNT

Africa has growing and youthful population. Image: REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah

Michael Geiger
Senior Economist, World Bank
Moulaye Ibrahim Bamba
World Bank Group Africa Fellow, World Bank
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