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...injected another kind of novelty into the region: stock fever. The newspapers were filled with ads offering loans - usually with exorbitant interest rates - to help Kenyans buy shares. Poor people who didn't even have bank accounts complained about a minimum investment requirement of 10,000 shillings (just over $150). And on the first day of the IPO, thousands of people lined up in downtown Nairobi to snap up shares. It was perhaps most emblematic that one Kenyan newspaper the Daily Nation, referred to potential investors as "punters," as if by buying Safaricom shares they were betting on a racehorse...
...said Fox. He called it a “zig-zag” situation where “it takes a long time to get where you are going.” Fox lamented the fact that Latin America had seen the lowest rates of economic growth of any region during the 20th century. He added that he understands the call for populism in Latin America because governments have been unable to ensure a basic standard of living. “People won’t wait, and they are right,” Fox said. “They...
...Times Union Center in Albany, N.Y., the No. 15 Tigers (22-13-0) ended Harvard’s season and extended their own, clinching the ECAC tournament title and the accompanying NCAA bid. While Princeton lost 5-1 to No. 1 seed North Dakota in the Midwest region in the first round, the Crimson spent a second consecutive spring break without any NCAA hockey to look forward to. “We didn’t finish it off exactly the way we wanted to,” Harvard coach Ted Donato ’91 said in a post...
Entering the western region on a two-game losing streak, Harvard dramatically ended their losing ways by winning a 10-9 thriller over Concordia University...
...deforest only 20% of their property--but there's not much law enforcement. I left Kotok to see Blairo Maggi, who is not only the soybean king of the world, with nearly half a million acres (200,000 hectares) in the province of Mato Grosso, but also the region's governor. "It's like your Wild West right now," Maggi says. "There's no money for enforcement, so people do what they want...