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Global Bond Yields Climb Back to Highest Since 2008

A selloff in global bonds sent yields back to the highest level in almost two decades as rising oil prices fueled inflation concerns and investors ramped up expectations that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates. Bloomberg's Ven Ram reports. (Source: Bloomberg)

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Nairobi collects Ksh15.4B in own-source revenue: Inside the county’s digital collection system

For years, Nairobi’s revenue challenge was not simply the size of its economy. The bigger problem was how to capture, track and account for money collected from millions of daily transactions across a…

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