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Managing the Transition to a Healthier Global Economy-IMF MD

September 30, 2015/IMF Introduction Good morning. Ambassador Negroponte, thank you for the kind introduction, and thank you to the Council of the Americas for inviting me here today. It is a great pleasure to “raise the curtain” on the IMF-World Bank Annual Meetings to be held next week in Lima […]

Gamaliel Onosode First CIS President Dies at 82

By InvestAdvocate Lagos (INVESTADVOCATE)- Gamaliel Offoritsenere Onosode,  Nigeria’s foremost technocrat and the first President of the Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers (CIS) is dead at 82 in a Lagos hospital having been flown home Monday from London after a protracted illness, according to media reports. Below is his profile culled from […]

MasterCard Supporting New Sustainable Development Goals

September 26, 2015/MasterCard The United Nations General Assembly passed a new set of development goals– the Sustainable Development Goals – which mark the next chapter in global efforts to resolving the world’s most challenging development issues. MasterCard’s technology, expertise and approach to partnership can help scale and implement all 17 […]