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" Mobile communications had been around for a long time, but always as a limited market, constrained by the radio spectrum. "
Mo Ibrahim
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" I came to the conclusion that unless you are ruled properly, you cannot move forward. Everything else is second. Everything. "
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" People never confess to failure. They should. "
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" Tony Blair is paid $500,000 for one speech, and no one asks how he is going to spend it. "
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" Of course, Nelson Mandela, everybody knows Nelson Mandela. I mean, he's a great gift not only for Africa but for the whole world, actually. But do not expect everybody to be a Nelson Mandela. "
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" Transfer pricing is causing huge problems in Africa. "
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" The U.S. has been a great friend all these years, but as soon as Africa found itself starting to move up, the U.S. is really disengaging. "
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" I come from a typical family. "
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" Everywhere in Africa, you see Indian, Chinese, Brazilian businesses. Other than Coca Cola and the oil companies, it is very rare to see American businesses. "
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" Africa's success stories are delivering the whole range of the public goods and services that citizens have a right to expect and are forging a path that we hope more will follow. "
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" Business people get many undeserved prizes - golden parachutes and bonuses even when companies fail. I don't think people should get rewarded for screwing up. "
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" What is a government supposed to do for its people? To improve the standard of living, to help them get jobs, get kids to schools, and have access to medicine and hospitals. Government may not directly provide these public goods and services, but government must be accountable for whether or not they are delivered to citizens. "
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" We need to keep pressure on our own governments to force more and more transparency. "
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" What we need in Africa is balanced development. Economic success cannot be a replacement for human rights or participation or democracy... it doesn't work. "
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" The brain drain from Africa has been reversed. "
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" Many Africans are used to a life where they get up in the morning and don't know what they're going to do that day. "
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" Educational opportunities have supported the rise of the African middle class, the professional cadre of young people who are now willing and able to contribute to Africa's future prosperity. "
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" Cape Verde produces good people. "
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" The African Development Bank is one of the most aggressive advocates of regional integration. "
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" Business is global. Countries need to react to that; taxes need to be paid where profit arises. "
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" Now is the time for Afro-realism: for sound policies based on honest data, aimed at delivering results. "
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" When I was young, there was only one TV channel, sponsored by the government, and it only broadcast things like what the leader had for breakfast. There was no real media. "
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" If we cannot accurately measure poverty, we surely cannot accurately measure our efforts to tackle it. "
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" We measure everything - why not governance? "
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" It is very difficult for any dictator or any incumbent to falsify the results of an election and just get away with it. "
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" Before any investor goes into any country, he is looking for the exit door. "
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