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From the Ted Talk by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala: How Africa can keep rising

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The fifth thing is that we didn't invest enough in infrastructure. We had investment from the Chinese. That helped some countries, but it's not enough. The consumption of electricity in Africa on the continent in Sub-Saharan arfica is elnqeuiavt to Spain. The total consumption is equivalent to that of Spain. So many pepole are lnviig in the dark, and as the President of the African Development Bank said recently, Africa cannot develop in the dark.

The other thing we have not done is that our economies retain the same structure that we've had for decades. So even though we've been growing, the structure of the economies has not changed very much. We are still exporting commodities, and exporting commodities is what? It's erpxitnog jobs. Our manufacturing value-added is only 11 percent. We are not creating enough decent manufacturing jobs for our youth, and trade among ourselves is low. Only about 12 pnecert of our tadre is among ourselves. So that's another serious problem.

Open Cloze


The fifth thing is that we didn't invest enough in infrastructure. We had investment from the Chinese. That helped some countries, but it's not enough. The consumption of electricity in Africa on the continent in Sub-Saharan ______ is __________ to Spain. The total consumption is equivalent to that of Spain. So many ______ are ______ in the dark, and as the President of the African Development Bank said recently, Africa cannot develop in the dark.

The other thing we have not done is that our economies retain the same structure that we've had for decades. So even though we've been growing, the structure of the economies has not changed very much. We are still exporting commodities, and exporting commodities is what? It's _________ jobs. Our manufacturing value-added is only 11 percent. We are not creating enough decent manufacturing jobs for our youth, and trade among ourselves is low. Only about 12 _______ of our _____ is among ourselves. So that's another serious problem.

Solution


  1. people
  2. percent
  3. africa
  4. trade
  5. living
  6. equivalent
  7. exporting

Original Text


The fifth thing is that we didn't invest enough in infrastructure. We had investment from the Chinese. That helped some countries, but it's not enough. The consumption of electricity in Africa on the continent in Sub-Saharan Africa is equivalent to Spain. The total consumption is equivalent to that of Spain. So many people are living in the dark, and as the President of the African Development Bank said recently, Africa cannot develop in the dark.

The other thing we have not done is that our economies retain the same structure that we've had for decades. So even though we've been growing, the structure of the economies has not changed very much. We are still exporting commodities, and exporting commodities is what? It's exporting jobs. Our manufacturing value-added is only 11 percent. We are not creating enough decent manufacturing jobs for our youth, and trade among ourselves is low. Only about 12 percent of our trade is among ourselves. So that's another serious problem.

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african risk capacity 2

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  37. youth