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Addis Ababa Hosts Key Development Summit (Deutsche Welle)

July 27, 2015

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Owen Bader, a development economist at the Center for Global Development in London, is in Addis Ababa for the summit. He told DW's AfricaLink radio show that "the typical African doesn't need aid, but a job."

Bader said the World Bank's reference to trillions meant that "we have to use public resources to work together with the private sector. In the end, it is the private sector that will create those jobs. We can use public investment to create the right conditions for that investment and that growth and we can use it to protect the most vulnerable people who aren't benefiting immediately."