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

Harvard Business Review

In many industries, including travel, insurance, telecoms, music, and even automobiles, we are rapidly closing in on equalization of predictive capabilities across competitors, so there is little lasting competitive advantage to be gained from predicting the next purchase.

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How Blockchain Could Help Emerging Markets Leap Ahead

Harvard Business Review

Educational records, business histories, health care information, and credit ratings could all be made usable the world over, helping those who want to trade or travel to prove their credentials.

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

Harvard Business Review

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. Terrorism impacts tourism, but not for as long as you might think.

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