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Skills Development in Africa: How Wide is the Skills Gap?

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Most young people can’t afford to study abroad without government subsidies or scholarships. Post Brexit, many companies in the UK consider distributed teams overseas as an alternative to the shrinking talent pool and high recruitment costs in Britain. Kenya: Youth Fund Targets Young People in Business Start-Up Loans Plan.

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Out of the Crisis #11: Jeremy Howard on the power of masks, health policy, and data science in medicine

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So he said, "Okay, well you can look at all this human resources data for this mine in Ghana. And they got really into the idea of wearing masks and within three days, the whole country had masks, within three days with no government support. And for them, a lot of it was this kind of weird anti-government thing. And he told me.