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Nigeria: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala – keeping ego in her handbag!

March 12, 2013 by IndepthAfrica

By Oluwadamidara Aweloye In the wake of economic reforms that are being implemented in the Nigerian polity, the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has become a victim of slander and the target of … read more »

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Fixing the Unfixable Nigeria: Ngozi’s top job

November 22, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

NGOZI OKONJO-IWEALA is a woman who speaks her mind. Just over a year into her second stint as Nigeria’s finance minister, she has written a new book that she describes as a road map for low-income oil-exporting countries and poor … read more »

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Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is the right choice for the World Bank

April 8, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

Last spring, when the International Monetary Fund began its search for a new Managing Director, I argued that the Fund should pass over Christine Lagarde – then French finance minister – for a candidate from the developing world. As it … read more »

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Why Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala should run the World Bank

April 1, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

By Felix Salmon Don’t tell the people at Euromoney, but I’ve liberated my article about Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala from September 2005, when the magazine gave her its genuinely prestigious Finance Minister of the Year award. It’s here, on my Tumblr, since … read more »

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Paris Club cuts Ivory Coast’s debt burden

November 16, 2011 by benim

The Paris Club of creditor nations said members agreed on Tuesday to reduce the Ivory Coast’s foreign debt burden and said reforms underway should lead to further relief. The West African nation’s creditors in the Paris Club agreed to reschedule … read more »

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France cancels all of Togo’s debt: minister

May 12, 2011 by benim

France has decided to cancel all of Togo’s debt, amounting to some 100 million euros, in a bid to encourage the West African nation to pursue economic reforms, the finance minister here said Thursday. The deal was signed on Wednesday … read more »

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