TED Talks
Charles Robertson: Africa's next boom
TV-PG
2013 • E201 Oct 21, 2013 15mThe past decade has seen slow and steady economic growth across the continent of Africa. But economist Charles Robertson has a bold thesis: Africa's about to boom. He talks through a few of the indicators — from rising education levels to expanded global investment (and not just from China) — that lead him to predict rapid growth for a billion people, sooner than you may think.