Last week I was in Abidjan, Ivory Coast (currently and thankfully “Ebola free”) and had the opportunity to spend time with the board and the senior management of the African Development Bank.  The bank was founded by 23 African countries in 1964, and today has authorized capital in excess of $43.5 billion.  The United States joined in …

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As part of a Republican vision of American leadership in the world, the next Republican presidential candidate needs to recommit to supporting economic and political freedom around the world — and finding new ways to do so against the shifting geopolitical landscape. The International Republican Institute (IRI), part of the National Endowment for Democracy’s affiliated …

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