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Terra Lawson-Remer argues that mobile phones are breaking the economic stranglehold of elites with access to capital and giving poor...
Speakers: Ian Gary, Policy Adviser, Oxfam America
Paolo De Sa, Sector Manager, Oil, Gas, and Mining Unit, World Bank
Presider: Terra Lawson-Remer, Fellow for Civil Society, Markets, and Democracy, Council on Foreign Relations
May 16, 2012
This was a meeting of the roundtable series, Opportunity and Exclusion in the Global Economy.
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