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Five Ways to Build Your Wealth: A Guide

Strategy Driven

By implementing these strategies, you can take control of your finances and start building the wealth you desire. The idea behind debt recycling is to use the equity in your assets to finance investments that have the potential to earn a higher return than the interest of the debt. Invest in cash, gold, or other alternative assets.

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The Real Solution Is Growth

Harvard Business Review

Recent headlines have focused on the debt ceiling , the recent credit rating downgrade , unemployment , and the other thorny fiscal challenges facing the United States. This flight of talented students to work in finance harms all of us because it means that we have fewer "positive spillovers" from innovative activities.

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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. ” Adesina competed for the AfDB presidency against several accomplished bankers and finance ministers.