As soaring home prices set the stage for America's great housing meltdown, a critical step in making sure those home sales were a fair deal - the real estate appraisal - was undermined from within.

After the nation's last major banking disaster, Congress set up a system to catch rogue appraisers. Their game: inflating the value of homes at the direction of equally unscrupulous real esta...

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Nigeria: Seven Years of GSM - Telecom Democratisation, Everybody's Benefit - Ndukwe

What many thought was impossible has happened in the telecoms sector. These past seven years it has been a major revolution that has made Nigeria a reference point in terms of growth.

The country has registered over 54 million mobile li...

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