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4
. Information on Everything But Arms can be foundat
http://ec.europa.eu/trade/issues/global/gsp/eba/indexen.htm
.

5
. Paul Collier discussed the inequity between Europe’s trade policy towards Somalia versus Kenya on
Foreign Exchange
with Fareed Zakaria, on the US Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in August 2007.

6
. Information on the India–Africa Summit can be found at
http://www.africa-union.org/root/au/Conferences/2008/april/India-Africa/India-Africa.html
.

7
. This statistic comes from Learning Africa at
http://www.learningafrica.org.uk/generalfacts.htm
.

1
. The Nobel Peace Prize 2006 was awarded to Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank ‘for their efforts to create economic and social development from below’. See
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.

2
. More information on Grameen Bank can be found at
http://www.grameen-info.org/
.

3
. More information on Kiva can be found at
http://www.kiva.org/
.

4
. Vijay Mahajan, Managing Director of BASICS, estimated that 90 million farm holdings, 30 million non-agricultural enterprises and 50 million landless households in India collectively need approximately US$30 billion credit annually:
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.

5
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6
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7
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8
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. Comments by President Abdoulaye Wade can be found at
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.

4
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.

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