Three years before economist Dambisa Moyo's "Dead Aid", Economist Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala exorted people to do business in Africa in this TED talk: 
 http://www.ted.com/talks/ngozi_okonjo_iweala_on_doing_business_in_africa.html
 
It's about time the world started listening to these sisters with great minds. I think they are teaching the world what global economic reform should be. 
 
Peace, 
--Emilie 
 
 
 
On 03/21/12, traore aliou wrote:
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> Reporter Greg Palast Exposes How U.S. "Vulture" Funds Make Millions by Exploiting African Nations
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> > GREG PALAST: Mr. Grossman, hi. Greg Palast, BBC and Guardian.
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> > I tracked down an elusive American speculator to his New York lair. He’s been awarded $100 million against one of Africa’s most poverty-ravished nations, for a debt he bought for just $3.3 million, under very mysterious circumstances.
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> > While the rest of the world wrote off the debts of Congo and other poor nations to make poverty history, Peter Grossman and his fellow vulture financiers saw a chance to profiteer from the public’s generosity. Their scheme is to get rich quick by buying up worthless African debt, then suing for 10 or 100 times what they paid for it.
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