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Barack Obama: You look at the extraordinary gap in per capita income that exists now, what that tells me is that there were a lot of…

On the recordJuly 18, 2009
You look at the extraordinary gap in per capita income that exists now, what that tells me is that there were a lot of opportunities lost, and we can't afford another 40 or 50 years in which Africa loses those opportunities.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Obama emphasizes the lost opportunities in Africa's development and the need to address income disparities.

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