Africa: Ghana’s Digital Revolution Could Finally Unlock Economic Growth

From smart IDs to AI hubs, digitisation can fast-track growth and close the gap with global peers like South Korea.

Ghana and South Korea gained independence around the same period, and their developmental trajectories are often compared. For five centuries, Ghana has been part of the Gold Coast, and the mineral is still the country’s most valuable export. But South Korea, initially the poorer country, now has an income level nearly nine times that of Ghana. What prompted their divergent paths?

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