It’s time to get a grip on Africa-EU relations: a test for two continents

A more reassuring picture is painted by the US-based Center for Global Development (CGD), which forecasts a reduction of extreme poverty from today’s 29 per cent of Africa’s population to only seven per cent by 2050. But experts caution that the CGD’s scenario of growth that’s fast enough to create jobs for exploding populations depends on the implementation of development policies that so far have fallen well short of Africa’s requirements.