It is hard to prove a negative. But I think technological vision often beats natural resource endowment
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Replying to @calestous
: African governments put no much finance into solar power tech. Can achieve by attracting investors thru treaties
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Replying to @SMutiga78 @calestous
the AfDB hasn't invested anything into distributed renewable energy despite Africa having the greatest need
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Replying to @JonnyPCasey
The AfDB is not the only reservoir of imagination for Africa. It's a bank, not a development agency
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Replying to @calestous @SMutiga78
true but it's purpose is a development bank & invests largely in infrastructure & energy access is a target
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strategic investments can pave the way for & derisk private sector investment & give confidence to others
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Yes, but AfDB alone can't think for 54 nations and a billion people. Where are national champions?
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agreed. Morocco are doing great work on large scale solar. Bboxx, M-Kopa on decentralised solar in the East
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The celebrated African mobile revolution hardly added to local manufacturing @SMutiga78 @Y_Chengfu
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