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Countless
reports have noted that most African countries will not meet the
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by the due date of 2015. And
many of these reports have pointed to the fact that inadequate external
financing is much to blame for the lack of progress. |
| Private sector - key to economic growth
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Educate more girls - and boost health
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Better Governance, More Goals Achieved
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Don't
get hung up on aid, warns an ECA analyst. The policies and capacity
to deliver on them are what counts.
The
private sector only gets a brief mention in the Millennium Development
Goals. Yet it is business – entrepreneurs, employers, investors
and workers – who are best positioned to help Africa achieve
the Goals. ::
In
the years leading up to 2000, sub-Saharan Africa saw striking progress
towards Millennium Development Goal 2, achieving universal primary
school enrolment - a solid seven percent increase.
Increasing
aid and mobilizing business to achieve the MDGs in Africa is only
one side of the coin. African governments also need to raise their
game.
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