Africa’s human-capital imperative
Jul 04,2021 - Last updated at Jul 04,2021
LOME In 2014, the African Union’s “Cost of Hunger” study alerted African ministers of finance and planning to an underappreciated economic headwind that was gaining strength and threatening to stall their development plans. Yet, even as the silent hunger pandemic and the current COVID-19 pandemic erode Africa’s human capital, policymakers and political leaders still have not put health at the centre of their recovery plans.
Chronic malnutrition and COVID-19 present the same challenge at different scales. The coronavirus suspended the prevailing economic model and reminded us that capital ultimately depends on the health of the labourers who expand and mobilise resources. Likewise, hunger undercuts productivity by eroding human capital over time.
Africa s human-capital imperative
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