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What Investors Need to Know About Zimbabwe After Mugabe

Harvard Business Review

This is promising for a market formerly dubbed the “breadbasket of Africa.” ” Once one of Africa’s most developed markets – with a solid education system, good infrastructure, and a relatively large middle class – decades of mismanagement have cost Zimbabwe. . billion a decade later.

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Which Nation Has the Best 'Technik'?

Harvard Business Review

In a world of such diverse political forms — democracies, monarchies, authoritarian states — we will increasingly differentiate societies on the basis not of their regime type or income, but of their capacity to harness technology. Technik , then, is the technological quotient of civilization. The contrast between the U.N.'s