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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

Much has been made of the potential for blockchain technologies to open up new vistas for business and society. But is there a way for this revolutionary technology to empower the rich and poor alike? How Blockchain Works Here are five basic principles underlying the technology. Distributed Database.