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But Africa is also a poor continent.
Otherwise, it will be forever beholden to "second-hand" science that likely will never quite fit the continent's circumstances.
Indeed, efforts should be made to strengthen poorly funded, yet relevant, programs within UN organizations, and African nations should continue to pursue cooperative projects with constituencies with special ties to the continent.
This is a critical challenge for African scientists given competing demands on the continent's limited financial resources.
Africa's successful experiences in the application of science and technology for development are all-too-often drowned out by dismal news across the continent.
Such a transformation would not only boost African science but could serve as models for developing of other institutions across the continent.
In his magisterial three-volume history, “Main Currents of Marxism,” Kolakowski recorded how that political theory developed over time; but he also diagnosed the political, intellectual, and moral predicament of the European continent over the two centuries partly shaped by Marxist beliefs.
If we provide young women with the right support, they will transform their communities, their continent, and the world.
Markets have rallied since, but the continent remains crisis-ridden.
Even as tech revenues soar on the continent, almost no tech jobs are being created for Africans.
Asian companies like Samsung and Huawei are active on the continent and likely to outpace their flashier American competitors in the contest to introduce the much-vaunted Internet of Things.
Microsoft and IBM have programs that target Africa, and General Electric has declared that it is seeking to turn itself into a “digital industrial giant” on the continent.
Apple, however, is nearly irrelevant, with a market share of less than 3% on the continent (where its iPhone is being outsold by the hapless Blackberry).
Google employs only about 100 people on the continent.
But the continent lacks the capital, customer base, and talent that give entrepreneurs in developed economies at least a remote chance of tech startup success.
The much-maligned and very real intermittency of supplies of renewable power is addressed through additional back-up generation capacity and, crucially, a new direct-current supergrid that enables load balancing across the European continent.
In return, the UK will have two years to untangle the numerous threads that tie Britain to the continent.
In sum, the old Continent is hot.
If Germany should become the sick man of Europe, the Continent too, will fall ill.
They have always known what they want their continent to be.
The Bush administration’s incoherent foreign policy included a plan to build a missile defense shield in Poland and the Czech Republic, which allowed Putin to revive the Old Europe/New Europe divisions that began with the Iraq war, with this split appearing to enhance Russian influence on the continent.
But after the implosion of communism, the situation in Europe was more or less reversed: the defensive demarcation of borders has been replaced by the removal of frontiers across the Continent.
The fact that the green revolution never came to the world’s poorest continent, where agricultural productivity is just one-third the level in Asia, suggests that there is ample room for improvement.
Unemployment will soon be in double digits throughout most of the Continent, with Spanish and Latvian unemployment on track to exceed 20%.
And finally, a general lack of vision for the future of the European project has led to disaffection throughout the continent, undermining cohesion and, in turn, the EU’s capacity to address the trials it faces.
You just have to listen to them praising the continent of peace, reconciliation, and even relative equality (compared to the US).
Europe’s Ukrainian Road to NormalityLONDON – As Europe celebrates the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, dark clouds are again descending on the continent.
If pensions and governments both prove unable to provide for the elderly, countries across the continent could experience rising social instability – a broader version of the saga playing out in Greece.
The Greek debt implosion, back in 2010, was the ugly symptom of the eurozone’s design flaws, which is why it triggered a domino effect across the continent.
Throughout Asian history, the continent's ancient foundations of power were more sharply divided from one another--and over much longer time spans--than in Europe.
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