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Ken Banks

Ken Banks has spent the last fifteen years working on projects in Africa and is the founder of kiwanja.net. He divides his time between Cambridge and Stanford University.

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Edward Miguel’s examination of sub-Saharan Africa’s economic development focuses on outside influences and interventions as the major economic forces affecting the region. Foreign aid, foreign direct investment, the colonial legacy, and so...
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