Why should Africa invest in people now?

A conversation with Ritva Reinikka, Director of Human Development, Africa Region, The World Bank.

For more information, please visit: http://www.worldbank.org/afr/hd

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• bank
• africa
• human
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• ritva
• reinikka

[WorldBank]

We are committed to such results as we are committed to overall human development; this being the main message of the above interview. With such a large youth population, investments in human development are imperative; an opportunity that cannot be missed. For more about the World Bank's work on human development, please visit: worldbank org/afr/hd

[WorldBank]

In terms of our track record, the World Bank has a results-oriented approach to development. Just a few recent examples of such results include reducing the number of underweight children across four regions in Ethiopia through community-based nutrition programs (bit ly/dFuAtB); helping take strong action against malaria (bit ly/ek6e9H); and helping villages access safe water in Benin (bit ly/g3v0cc).

[WorldBank]

More about this approach: bit ly/fjYCE5 Even our own guiding strategy is formed by seeking the opinions and input from young African professionals, university students, small business owners, evident during our last Africa Action Plan consultations. bit ly/bzYsQF

[WorldBank]

Thank you for your comments. We agree that a one-size-fits-all approach is not effective. With that said, the World Bank develops individual assistance and partnership strategies for each country through meetings with government officials and consultations with country authorities, civil society organizations, development partners, among others. The starting point of the Bank's program of support for any country is the country's own long-term vision for development.

[MrInCoPro]

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[Agoozner]

I love it. A WB "expert" discussing Africa the largest continent in the world. Isn't it about time for them to stop taking the one size fits all approach to development. You teach a person anything if they are dieing from thirst or hunger. She is fighting the for funds for her projetcs.

Any discussion on what is needed and how to do it has to concentrate on the exact country/location in question the people there and and their needs. Any discussion on "Africa needs this" is worthless.

[Camilla77777]

We are taking back our country and the wealth of its resources that is more than sufficient to feed whole generations in the future. Stop maintaining and supporting these economic systems that cripple people. It is already going to be hard a task for Africa and its diaspora to decide what to do with our space being so far taken away from our root- our bosom. Regardless that should be our decision to make. Pay reparations NOW! We'll figure ourselves out of the mess you started!

[Camilla77777]

Africans had their own manner of culture and livelihood, empires and a university and places of scholarship and systems of knowledge apprenticeship. The European himself found these realities when he set foot on the lands. In our own right to determine our livelihoods we were productive, educated and healthy before the place was despoiled, people enslaved and the resourced being plundered by 1st world thieves! Please do not paint any rosy idea that you have the interest of Africans at heart!

[Camilla77777]

....At the end of the day, your track record shows that the World Bank has no vested interest in the livelihoods of people but in how they can maintain control of the purse strings, so they can maintain control of governments and people and thus maintain the distribution of capital and thus, their wealth i,e the wealth of elites. This woman's assessment: "It is time for Africa to build a generation that is productive, educated and healthy" is really blatant ridiculousness.

[Camilla77777]

The World Bank should really not have the balls/audacity to make any statements regarding the development of Africa. We are well aware of the debt that they are knowingly placing on African countries with the same intent to build industries etc. It is amazing that the World Bank is "always ready to help" but on clearly unfair terms. These same gurus are responsible in some part for causing whole villages to go hungry in your dealings with markets and commodities.