{"id":66,"date":"2023-10-19T17:20:45","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T17:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pauleccles.co.za\/wordpress\/?p=66"},"modified":"2023-10-19T17:20:45","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T17:20:45","slug":"jeffery-sachs-on-how-china-shows-the-way-forward-for-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pauleccles.co.za\/wordpress\/index.php\/2023\/10\/19\/jeffery-sachs-on-how-china-shows-the-way-forward-for-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeffery Sachs on How China shows the way forward for Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jeffrey Sachs Interview - China A Recipe for the World\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R_i2COrK8ZA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>40 years ago China was actually more impoverished and less developed than Africa. The levels of poverty and extreme poverty were at about 60-70%. Today they don&#8217;t have anybody in poverty. What they have achieved is remarkable, and they showed that it can be done. Africa (and I know it&#8217;s not a country lol) needs to do the same. It needs to unify, invest in it&#8217;s own people, it&#8217;s own infrastructure and build itself up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jeffrey Sachs is an economist and he is very much worth listening to, on this subject and many others. I fully agree with his prescription here. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>40 years ago China was actually more impoverished and less developed than Africa. The levels of poverty and extreme poverty were at about 60-70%. Today they don&#8217;t have anybody in poverty. What they have achieved is remarkable, and they showed that it can be done. Africa (and I know it&#8217;s not a country lol) needs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pauleccles.co.za\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pauleccles.co.za\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pauleccles.co.za\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pauleccles.co.za\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pauleccles.co.za\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pauleccles.co.za\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67,"href":"https:\/\/pauleccles.co.za\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/67"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pauleccles.co.za\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pauleccles.co.za\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pauleccles.co.za\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}