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Meron Tesfaye

Meron Tesfaye

Innovation Director at the Energy for Growth Hub

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The energy trap at the heart of Africa’s stalled industrialization

How does the continent get out of a self-reinforcing cycle of low energy and low productivity?
Pylons carry electricity from South African power utility Eskom’s Koeberg nuclear plant near Cape Town on Nov. 28, 2015.
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