The Importance of Standards in the African Development Story

Africa can achieve a level of economic development in a space of time that it took other countries, you know, if it took someone 40 years to achieve something in the recent past. But I think it is really going to depend on close lockstep diplomacy between partners. China's economic development experience has also been uneven. It is one country, but it has a significant amount of governance devolution in the design and implementation of specific policies.