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Africa and the 4th Industrial Revolution
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28 August 2020 | Issue
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Source: Measuring Human Capital, Lancet 2018; 392:1217-34
Source: World Economic Forum analysis
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Can African employees compete in a global economy
If we took African countries out of the calculation of the average score, the standing of African countries would look even more concerning, placing them alongside Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Laos, Papua New Guinea, and in some areas, on a par with India.
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Africa's capacity to adapt and exposure to future jobs
There’s one final dimension we need to include in our analysis if we’re going to get a realistic picture of how well African countries are likely to weather the Fourth Industrial Revolution. We need to understand both the country's likely exposure to this global impact, as well as the country’s ‘capacity to adapt’. Applying this context allows us, for example, to glean the fact that South Africa is in a far more vulnerable position than Benin, simply because its economy is that much more exposed to these global pressure.
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