Ethiopia to Mauritius: how will Africa match jobs to its population boom?

As Africa seeks new ways to tackle high debt, low pay and inequality, Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz believes two countries offer an alternative to the 'Asian tiger' model

There's a speech that the Nobel-prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz has been taking around African countries these past few years.

Last autumn the venue was South Africa's capital, Cape Town, and the issue was among the most pressing facing the continent: how its economies can grow fast enough to keep up with the world's most sharply expanding and youthful populations, which will include three-quarters of the additional 4 billion people on the planet by the end of this century.

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