On one side of the internet, a World Bank livestock specialist asks about projects dealing with young people in agriculture and rural development. And way over on the other side, an expert on security and geopolitical issues discusses the wider ramifications of a “story about wind turbines on school ground that provide most of school’s need but also a lesson on the local generation of energy to impressionable kids.” School gardens, anyone?
A key advantage for emerging economies: young demographic profiles. That means the turnover on conventional wisdom is relatively fast—as in, a good 15 years later and the bulk of the population can’t remember the old and bad ways and think only in terms of the new paradigm.
Sure, but as another article out at the weekend showed, there’s a long way to go.