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Africa Act of 2013, AGOA, Bingu wa Mutharika, Doing Business in Africa, Robert Hormats, South Africa gateway to Africa, World Economic Forum
I will take the opportunity today to pick on Robert Hormats, the Under Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment. While I recall hearing him delivering incredibly uninspiring remarks in person about two years ago (a colleague of mine said he sounded like a ‘political hack’), I want to focus today on his recent comments at the World Economic Forum in Pretoria, South Africa, which I find more irksome than uninspiring. Continue reading