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Africa’s Unique Opportunity to Promote Inclusive Growth

Harvard Business Review

For the last decade, Africa’s GDP has been growing quickly. 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.

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The Real Challenge to Turkey’s Economy Isn’t Terrorism

Harvard Business Review

It covers roughly 70% of Turkey’s GDP. Turkey’s general credit rating is still higher than that of Brazil, Croatia, Portugal, Cyprus, and Serbia. It generally takes a country about 13 months to recover fully from a terrorist attack, according to the World Travel and Tourism Council.

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