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Private universities in Africa are missing a trick

  • Written by: The Conversation
imageProspective students storm the gates at the University of Johannesburg in 2012. The demand for universities is soaring across Africa.Adrian de Kock/EPA

Private universities are mushrooming across Africa. This growth is largely a response to the continent’s soaring demand for higher education.

Research shows that the number of tertiary students...

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Why the approach economists have taken to growth in Africa has failed chronically

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imageNot all of the post-independence period in Africa has been an economic failure.Reuters/Philimon Bulawayo

There has been a chronic failure among economists to explain growth in Africa. The methods and analytical angles they have used to explain relative failure in Africa were conceived in the 1990s, but these were unsuitable for explaining growth...

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