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Experts Say Africa Has Minimal Influence over Own Development, Destiny (Deutsche Welle)

April 06, 2009

Deutsche Welle quotes CGD senior fellow Todd Moss on Africa's influence over the international finance institutions.

From the article:

"Todd Moss, a senior fellow and director of The Emerging Africa Project at the Center for Global Development, a Washington-based NGO, says that a number of high profile positions in the IFIs are held by Africans but concedes that ultimately the decision makers are the national governments themselves....

Todd Moss, of the Emerging Africa Project, rejects the idea of a Western bias but concedes that international financial institutions "skew their assistance to countries that follow sound economic policies, as those institutions define them and which are set by the board and management.""

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