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Africa’s Unique Opportunity to Promote Inclusive Growth

Harvard Business Review

The AfDB has the strongest credit rating of any organization in Africa and in 2008, it surpassed the World Bank in lending to Africa , a signal of Africa’s growing agency in its own development. China, and most countries of Western Europe. In the coming years, expect the AfDB to pioneer approaches to inclusive growth.

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Why We Build Fiscal Cliffs

Harvard Business Review

Congress had a moderately successful run with budget pre-commitment mechanisms in the 1980s and 1990s, in the form of the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 and the successor known as " paygo." So now, in 2013, they're all due to expire. But it has worked in the past. entry into World War I.