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Africa’s Unique Opportunity to Promote Inclusive Growth

Harvard Business Review

But with robust growth rates and economies unburdened by legacy structures of the last century, Africans can innovate beyond what others are doing. The African Development Bank (AfDB) is the most visible organization tasked with shepherding that inclusive innovative growth. China, and most countries of Western Europe.

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Why Leaders Need to Think More Like Professional Gamblers

Leading Blog

After graduating from the University of Oxford with a physics degree, he went into securities trading, first at Yamaichi International and then at the Bank of America. Benham is a renowned, albeit somewhat inaccessible, figure in the British gambling world. That inspired Benham to leave his day job and focus on gambling.

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AskObama Is a Meaningless Marketing Stunt

Harvard Business Review

Why did he choose to bail out the banks? My point is that without a working, viable, lasting, participatory link to the who, what, when, where, and how of policy-making, the event is just that: a one-off marketing stunt, with little enduring significance or meaning. So, what are you asking President Obama? Why not more stimulus?

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What Economists Know That Managers Don’t (and Vice Versa)

Harvard Business Review

For policy-making purposes economists assume that all businesses act rationally in the pursuit of profits. banking assets and as such are “too big to fail”). This is a reminder that serious students of market performance take market failures seriously.

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What Economists Know That Managers Don’t (and Vice Versa)

Harvard Business Review

For policy-making purposes economists assume that all businesses act rationally in the pursuit of profits. banking assets and as such are “too big to fail”). This is a reminder that serious students of market performance take market failures seriously.