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Why Mombasa port should emulate Hamburg

March 19th, 2009 · No Comments

By John Njiraini In Hamburg, Germany
More than two years after the Government abandoned a move to concession the container terminal at the Port of Mombasa midstream, confusion and indecisiveness persists on what to do with the port to improve efficiency.

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Financial Crisis Exposes IMF, WB Failures

March 13th, 2009 · No Comments

Nobel prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz has called for a speed up of reforms on the world’s financial institutions due to their flawed policies that exacerbated the global financial downturn.
A day after the World Bank announced that developing countries face a financing shortfall of $700 billion this year, Stiglitz said policies being propagated by the [...]

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