TED演讲:非洲该怎样继续前进(10)

So you mentioned corruption in your talk, and you're known, well-known as a strong anticorruption fighter. 你在你的演讲中提到了腐败,而你作为一个反腐败人士是非常知名的。 But that's had consequences. People have fought back, and your mother was kidnapped. 但这对你是有很大影响的。那些人反击,你的母亲遭到绑架。 How have you been handling this? 你是如何应对这些的? It...

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TED演讲:非洲该怎样继续前进(5)

And this mobile money is also providing a platform for access to alternative energy. 这项移动支付技术也为获取替代能源提供了一个平台。 You know, people who can now pay for solar the same way they pay for cards for their telephone. 人们现在可以像支付电话费一样支付太阳能费用。 So this was a very good development, something that went right. 所以这是个非常好的发展,方向是正确的。...

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TED演讲:非洲该怎样继续前进(7)

So even though we've been growing, the structure of the economies has not changed very much. 即使我们一直在发展,经济的机构并没有什么改变。 We are still exporting commodities, and exporting commodities is what? It's exporting jobs. 我们仍然出口商品,而出口商业等于什么?等于出口就业岗位。 Our manufacturing value-added is only 11 percent. 我们的制造业只增值了11%。 We a...

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TED演讲:非洲该怎样继续前进(4)

Two, debt. In 1994, the debt-to-GDP ratio of African countries was 130 percent, and they didn't have fiscal space. 第二件事,债务。在1994年,非洲国家债务对GDP的比例是130%,而且他们没有财政空间。 They couldn't use their resources to invest in their development because they were paying debt. 他们无法用自己的资源去投资于自己的发展,因为他们都在偿还债务。 There may be so...

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TED演讲:非洲该怎样继续前进(2)

The second story has to do with something that I'm sure most of you have seen or will remember. 第二个故事,和那些我相信你们大多数人都见过或者记得相关事情。 Very often, countries in Africa suffer drought and floods, 非洲的国家常常遭受干旱和洪涝, and it's getting more frequent because of climate change effects. 而随着气候变化的影响,它们正发生得越发频繁。 When this h...

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TED演讲:非洲该怎样继续前进(9)

We have genius in our young people. I see it every day. 我们的年轻人拥有天赋。我每天都看得到。 It's what makes me wake up in the morning and feel ready to go. 这就是每天早上叫醒我并且让我整装待发的东西。 We have to unleash the genius of our young people, 我们必须解开我们的年轻人身上天赋的枷锁, get out of their way, support them to create and innovate and lead the way. ...

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TED演讲:非洲该怎样继续前进(8)

Now, where do we go from there? 现在,我们该走向何方? I believe that the way forward is to learn to manage success. 我相信前进的道路就是学会管理成功。 Very often, when people succeed or countries succeed, they forget what made them succeed. 当一个人成功了,或一个国家成功以后,他们往往会忘记是什么导致他们成功的。 Learning what you're successful at, managing it and keepin...

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TED演讲:非洲该怎样继续前进(1)

The narrative of a rising Africa is being challenged. 这是一个正在崛起的非洲面临挑战的故事。 About 10 years ago, I spoke about an Africa, 大约在十年前,我做了一个关于非洲的演讲, an Africa of hope and opportunity, an Africa of entrepreneurs, 讲了一个充满希望和机会的非洲,遍布企业家的非洲, an Africa very different from the Africa that you normally hear about of death, povert...

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TED演讲:非洲该怎样继续前进(6)

The first was that even though we grew, we didn't create enough jobs. 一,虽然我们进步,我们却没有创造足够的就业岗位。 We didn't create jobs for our youth. 我们没有为我们的年轻人创造就业岗位。 Youth unemployment on the continent is about 15 percent, and underemployment is a serious problem. 在非洲,失业青年大概占15%,而就业不足是一个非常严重的问题。 The second thing ...

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TED演讲:非洲该怎样继续前进(3)

But that narrative is being challenged now 然而,这个故事现在遇到了挑战 because the continent has not been doing well in the last two years. 因为非洲大陆在过去两年内一直表现不佳。 It had been growing at five percent per annum for the last one and a half decades, 虽然在过去的十五年里,它都是以每年5%的速度在增长, but this year's forecast was three percent. Why? 但今年的预...

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