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  • Industry: Infrastructure
  • Type: White paper
  • Date: 5/21/2013

Foresight: A Global Infrastructure Perspective 

Let’s face it: today’s infrastructure development is primarily shaped by cost considerations. Whether it is the cost of debt, the cost of funding or operational costs, project owners, managers and – increasingly – users are fixated on cost.

Africa is changing, and changing quickly. What was once seen as the "hopeless" continent has recently been re-branded as the "rising" continent.

 

South Africa’s entry into the elite BRICS club is perhaps one of the most notable symbols of Africa’s rising. But so too are the statistics that emerge almost every day from the continent:  by 2035, for example, Africa will have the largest working population on the planet, having overtaken China and India.

 

But if the continent hopes to capitalize on this "demographic dividend” to deliver the vision of a prosperous, peaceful Africa, it needs to start building its future now.

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