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" While the Marshall Plan was important for Europe's recovery, Europe's prosperity was really built on economic integration and policy coherence. "
Mo Ibrahim
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" You fly for hours and hours and hours over Africa to go from one place to another. "
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" The Zimbabwean people, like everyone else, have a right to live in freedom and prosperity and to select their leaders through fair and democratic elections. "
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" Botswana had three successive good presidents who served their legal terms, who did well for their countries - three, not one. "
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" I really don't have heroes in business; I never looked up at business people. "
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" Remember, 2000 was the year of the dot-com bust. The telecom industry lost about $2 trillion in market capital at that time. "
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" The problem is that many times people suspend their common sense because they get drowned in business models and Harvard business school teachings. "
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" There's no point in trying to hoard money after life, so better really to share with people. "
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" Governance has been at the heart of the work of the Oxford Martin Commission for Future Generations and is a clear focus in its report, 'Now for the Long Term.' "
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" I'm an engineer. I'm a techie, really. "
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" People never confess to failure. They should. "
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" When you ask people what they think of Africa, they think of AIDS, genocide, disasters, famine. "
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" We measure everything - why not governance? "
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" The Ibrahim Index is a tool to hold governments to account and frame the debate about how we are governed. "
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" In a world of growing food demand, Africa is home to two-thirds of the world's unexploited arable land. "
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" Experience shows that when political governance and economic management diverge, overall development becomes unsustainable. "
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" Sudan cannot afford to be on the wrong side of history. The north and south will have to work together, but will they? "
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" A narrative that branded Africa as little more than an economic, political and social basket case was not likely to provide the investment needed to drive development. "
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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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" Literacy in Tunisia is almost 100%. It's amazing - no country in the region or even in Asia can match Tunisia in education. "
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" I don't subscribe to the narrative that Africa is backward because of colonialism. "
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" The way forward for Africa is investment. "
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" It's time Africa started listening to our young people instead of always telling them what to do. "
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" I think we need to look at ourselves first. We should practice what we're preaching. Otherwise, we are hypocrites. "
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" I never had a doubt that I wanted to do engineering. "
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" Make as much money as you can, but can you please pay your taxes, because this is a major problem. "
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" Mobile phones could not work in Africa without prepaid because it's a cash society. "
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" Challenging vested interests requires a government's full commitment. "
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" African leaders work really under severe limitations and constraints. "
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" Every man, woman and child knows about Mugabe, but people say, 'Mogae, who is that?' "
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