Knowledge can accelerate Africa's MDGs achievement, experts say
If knowledge is harnessed and translated into products and processes, Africa’s progress towards achieving the MDGs will be accelerated, concluded a two-day expert group meeting on “Harnessing Knowledge to Achieve the MDGs” which ended on Friday in Addis Ababa. Stating that knowledge could be explicit, implicit and tacit, the experts at the meeting defined knowledge as a set of processes and products which has codified information and transcends education, science, technology and innovation. “Knowledge must be viewed within a system framework and comprises of three main features: institutions, policies and actors,” the expert said in a concluding statement. They said there is positive correlation between knowledge and growth and that high skill acquisition allows for high absorption of technology, structural transformation, growth and poverty reduction. Knowledge is one of the main engines of growth in a globalized world, said the experts, adding “The higher the investment in research and development, the richer the country becomes and vice versa.”
| Format: | Press release biblioteca |
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| Language: | eng |
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2010-11
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10855/33082 |
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