A World Fit for the

Rising Generations

A comment: Some global economic geography and implications

Richard Carey

AIA/NAEC Seminar 26 September 2017

• Where will the workforce of the world be in 2050?

• China in the drivers seat

• Africa’s additional billion

• Smart entrepreneurship and labour markets, global and local

• Three related current issues in economics • From financial leverage to public entrepreneurship and real investment • Welfare economics and the economics of welfare • The education of economists

World Labour Force in 2050

China’s Belt and Road Initiative

Rising Generation in Africa

Rising Change Makers

Employment to Education as a Business

WARI.com - base: Senegal

Kabirou Mbodjie – organising Africa Role of electronic platforms

New paradigm for Introductory ecomomics Economics for a Changing World -CORE

Attuned to problems – eg financial leverage industry; monopoly in IT industries

• Where will the workforce of the world be in 2050?

• China in the drivers seat

• Africa’s additional billion

• Smart entrepreneurship and labour markets, global and local

• Three related current issues in economics • From financial leverage to public entrepreneurship and real investment • Welfare economics and the economics of welfare • The education of economists