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Technology

Digital disruption

The digital revolution may make low-wage industrialisation less likely

Skills training

Low standard, wrong content

Why the MENA region lacks domestically trained ICT experts

Youth unemployment

Focused agenda needed

The MENA region needs economic growth and targeted interventions to get to grips with youth unemployment

Automation

The exaggerated threat of robots

International competition is a bigger threat to Africa's industrialisation than the automation of labour

Qualifications

Development service as a place of learning

On mission, German development workers acquire skills, and better documentation would serve their careers

Schools

More must happen

Literacy rates have risen in sub-Saharan Africa, but reality is probably worse than official numbers suggest

Our view

Longer and better lives

Why nationalism and zero-sum thinking add up to a recipe for disaster

Economic history

Always returning to square one

Argentina’s economic meltdown of 2001/2002 still overshadows new developments

Research

How green industrial policy can boost prosperity

Why environmental protection can lead to more employment in developing countries

Green industrial policy

Reducing poverty whilst transitioning to a green economy

The double challenge of generating growth and transitioning to clean economies

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