Mo Ibrahim Quotes

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• Experience shows that when political governance and economic management diverge, overall development becomes unsustainable.
• Far from being hopeless, Africa is full of hope and potential, maybe more so than any other continent. The challenge is to ensure that its…
• The problem is that many times people suspend their common sense because they get drowned in business models and Harvard business school teachings.
• When you ask people what they think of Africa, they think of AIDS, genocide, disasters, famine.
• Behind every corrupt politician are 10-20 corrupt businessmen.
• In the final analysis, finding a way to do clean business and not to pay bribes actually improves your bottom line.
• Botswana had three successive good presidents who served their legal terms, who did well for their countries - three, not one.
• Cape Verde produces good people.
• Africa has 53 countries. And you find that three or four countries in these 53 are dominating the news.
• African leaders work really under severe limitations and constraints.
• I never set out really to build a financial empire or to be a wealthy man.
• The way forward for Africa is investment.
• Young people are better educated. They grew up in a society which is well connected, well informed. They are able to communicate to one another,…
• The African Development Bank is one of the most aggressive advocates of regional integration.
• Nobody messes with China, nobody messes with the United States, or with Europe, because these are really big entities with a lot of clout and…
• We need to keep pressure on our own governments to force more and more transparency.
• We measure everything - why not governance?
• Africa is rich, and why are we poor then if our continent is rich. It is not right.
• Modern slavery is a hidden crime and notoriously difficult to measure.
• Positive market incentives operating in the public interest are too few and far between, and are also up against a seemingly never-ending expansion of perverse…

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