Good Governance Still Africa's Achilles Heel
Isobel Coleman and Charles Landow discuss how lack of good governance in Africa condemns millions to poverty and fails to unleash the...
Speaker: Jonathan Berman, Senior Fellow, Columbia University’s Vale Center; Senior Advisor, Dalberg; and Author, Success in Africa: CEO Insights from a Continent on the Rise
Presider: Isobel Coleman, Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy, Director, Civil Society, Markets, and Democracy Initiative; Council on Foreign Relations
September 10, 2013
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