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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. “As I travel across Africa, I notice two things about how we’re growing,” Adesina told me recently.

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How Blockchain Could Help Emerging Markets Leap Ahead

Harvard Business Review

This helps to prove their identity, cutting down on fraud and creating market efficiencies. Just getting the costs of regulation and compliance down would open world markets and create wealth, but that doesn’t have to mean changing local regulations. The system currently serves a billion people.

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Use Big Data to Create Value for Customers, Not Just Target Them

Harvard Business Review

Big data holds out big promises for marketing. Notably, it pledges to answer two of the most vexing questions that have stymied marketers since they started selling: 1) who buys what when and at what price? Measuring Marketing Insights. and 2) can we link what consumers hear, read, and view to what they buy and consume?