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Out of crisis, opportunity?
- Source: Africa Renewal, Volume 22, Issue 4, Jan 2009, p. 6 - 7
- French
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- 31 Jan 2009
Abstract
The Chinese word for “crisis” (wei ji) is composed of two characters, notes Senegalese economist Moustapha Kassé. One signifies “danger”; the other, “opportunity.” In reacting to the current global economic crisis, Mr. Kassé argues, African governments have too often seen only the first meaning. “But it is the second that is essential: every crisis carries within itself an opportunity, a chance for change, for adaptation.”
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