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June 2, 2021Otaviano Canuto, Policy Center for the New South The conceptual framework of natural wealth that we approached in the previous video may be illustrated with cases drawn from Sub-Saharan Africa. With at least 250 million inhabitants in resource-rich African countries, natural assets are ...
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