randomafrican

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by randomafrican 10y ago
Then again, The Gambia is special. They have held multiparty free and open elections from independance until 1994 (Jammeh's coup). This a continent where most countries had experienced Coups, Single-Party rule or both by 1970. (The on
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by randomafrican 10y ago
That's why everybody uses the word "shock" He has not publicly conceded yet (so we may still get a surprise) but : - his electoral commission has announced the results - the head of his electoral commission has announced Jamm
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by randomafrican 10y ago
$2mm is something like one hour of revenue for Apple I don't think they make design decisions on that basis
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by randomafrican 11y ago
Western oil companies produce all the oil worldwide. The fracking guys are minor players.
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by randomafrican 12y ago
"Critics have complained" No data, no study on the effect.
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by randomafrican 12y ago
If Communist Cuba didn't exist, may be most of those dictatorships wouldnt have happened. And Costa Rica may be an exception because their lefties (or liberals) were smart enough to keep their eyes on the price.
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by randomafrican 12y ago
Quite often the IMF is an easy scapegoat. You'd be surprised by how often the IMF advice is ignored or by how sound it can be at times. For instance, in Ukraine a few years ago, the IMF's advice was to cut down on some structural
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by randomafrican 12y ago
what if the supply of medical workers in Cuba allows it to send so many abroad with little effect on the local conditions ?
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by randomafrican 12y ago
Costa Rica has done as well or even better
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by randomafrican 12y ago
Small margins and low growth though. And many would argue that it'd be hard to do better.
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by randomafrican 12y ago
You'd'be surprised by how well his nationalistic projection works nowadays
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by randomafrican 12y ago
Top Gear tries to kill a Hilux : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnWKz7Cthkk
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by randomafrican 12y ago
Can someone explain why the network controls the update ? I get why OEMs need to test/approve an update for their specific phones but what kind of role carriers play here ?
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by randomafrican 12y ago
There are been rumours saying that it has been ready for months if not years. The decision to release it is Nadella's.
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by randomafrican 12y ago
Nazism didn't last long enough. With North Korea, we're talking about a system that lasted for multiple generations.
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by randomafrican 13y ago
And Turkey is an ally in that confrontation and in the one with Syria. (though not an ally on Irak and Iran)
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by randomafrican 13y ago
Many of them actually get power-hungry while in power. Especially the ones who get elected after spending some time in the opposition under not-so-democratic regimes.
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by randomafrican 13y ago
It's a matter of how things are moving. Homosexuality has been illegal in India. No change no uproar. Russia's laws have moved things bavkwards. Look at what happened in Uganda.
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by randomafrican 13y ago
I was about to argue that institutions like Freedom House are ideologically biased but then I realized that each of the institutions have very different biases.
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by randomafrican 13y ago
Ok but is it similar to the Black Market that existed in the 80's in the USSR or closer to the late 90's in Cuba ? If it's the first case, it's argue that the most corrupt rank isn't deserved. If it's the latte
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by randomafrican 13y ago
I know that(I've lived in countries that were at the time last on the list). But did they survey North Koreans to discuss said perception ? Is "corrupt" really an equivalent of "bad and arbitrary and awfully run" ?
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by randomafrican 13y ago
Or may be things are just uneven.. While officials in touch with foreigners in Santiago are clean, it could be that it's less the case at the local BMV in remote town..
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by randomafrican 13y ago
May be I should download the brochure to learn more about the methodology but some of the countries at the bottom seem weird. North Korea is last ? Is there even room for corruption in the North Korean public sector ? I imagine it being arb
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by randomafrican 13y ago
M-Pesa is one service by one telco operator. Almost every teco in Africa has implemented an equivalent. Now the penetration may not be as deep in the other countries as in Kenya but that will change.
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by randomafrican 13y ago
So now the country with the worse case of hyperinflation of may be the last 30 years is somehow representative of a continent of 50 countries ? Anyway. Capital flight (especially unearned capital) has been a more common issue for much longe
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by randomafrican 13y ago
Do we all agree that their only hope in consumer mobile is making Office cross-platform ?
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by randomafrican 13y ago
what if sales have peaked not because don't buy new tablets but rather because people don't replace them that often ?
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by randomafrican 13y ago
>People saved money with Icelandic banks that had opened branches in the UK and the Netherlands. Weren't many of those branches of Icelandic banks seized/nationalized/prevented from repatriating any capital to Iceland all
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by randomafrican 13y ago
I'll give you the Eurozone... Makes it impossible to devaluate and much harder to put capital controls in place (though Cyprius manage to do so while being in the Eurozone). However, what Iceland did was still unilateral. They didn&#x2
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by randomafrican 13y ago
You make it sound like things were all bright and shiny for Bjork, Icelandi and Thor. In real life they were not.

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