AGBF 2015: day 2: New Drivers - Africa’s Future Factories

With digital technology transforming mass-market business models, African nations are unlikely to be able to take the same path to prosperity that most higher-income countries have taken, leveraging cheap labour and competitive exports before climbing up the value chain. The African Union aims for Africa to lead the new innovative industrial revolution, but manufacturing growth has been disappointing so far. What role can businesses in Africa play in this future world? And what needs to happen now to facilitate it?
Jay Ireland, President and CEO, GE Africa, Kenya
Tarek Sultan, Chief Executive Officer and Vice Chairman, Agility, Kuwait
Mawuena Trebarh, Chief Executive Officer, Ghana Investment Promotion Centre, Ghana

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