China Offers Blueprint For Africa's Rise

Africa could double its current growth rate for the next 40 years by drawing on China's development strategy, which offers the strongest "proof of concept" for sustained high growth, economist Jeffrey Sachs said in a lecture on Thursday.

With Africa projected to account for 25 percent of the world's population by 2050 and 35 percent by 2100, the continent's future will hinge on urgent and large-scale investment in education, including universal digital access for students, Sachs said at a discussion called "The Future of Global Growth: Prof Jeffrey Sachs on Geopolitics and Fragmentation", held at the Gordon Institute of Business Science under the University of Pretoria in Johannesburg, South Africa.