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Choices about what technologies we invest in come early on. Once universities create curricula based on those presumptions, then it's baked in the cake once all the new grads are on the street looking for jobs in those areas, and they don't yet exist. So we take the position, "OK we're all entrepreneurs in this new world", but how many entrepreneurs can there be when only a micro-fraction of the world's population don't even have the personality, upbringing, or family lineage to make the businesses successful. Governments use technology as a panacea, but ultimately is not a plausible solution in context of what has made economies work in the past. Typically what happens in poor countries where the smarter kids actually learn to code is that they pursue a life in cybercrime. We went down the Internet road almost thirty years ago with the idea that it was the superhighway of the post-war era. That road already is broken, and the younger generations are trying to fix it with that old 50s metaphor. That could be Problem #1: the metaphors are broken.