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New From CFR: Helen Clark on the 2013 Human Development Report

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  • Development Channel Staff

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGbRgvDFtAs&feature=player_embedded

In a CFR meeting this week, Helen Clark, administrator of the United Nations Development Program, discussed the newly released 2013 Human Development Report and trends in global development. Among the topics was Africa’s economic growth. As Clark argued:

Africa, for that growth, is not getting the poverty reduction which Asia got at similar levels of its development because the growth has been coming off, essentially, extractive industries, for the most part. And to get poverty down, you have to find ways of getting domestic revenue of those industries and investing back into the virtuous cycle of development--the infrastructure, the education, the health systems, the social protection and so on.

You can watch the event video above or on YouTube here. An audio recording and a transcript are also available.