Publication: Fighting Corruption the Celtel Way : Lessons from the Front Line
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2007-05
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2012-08-13
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Celtel is dedicated to making life better. In our eyes this means ensuring a sustainable business to continue the infrastructure investment essential to Africa's development. And it means doing so in a fully transparent manner, including publishing what we pay to Governments and state-owned enterprises : this amounted to some 35 percent of Celtel's revenue in 2005. The Celtel story shows emphatically that it is possible, if not always easy, to run a successful clean business in Africa which can benefit all stakeholders and help to enable development.
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“Ibrahim, Mohamed. 2007. Fighting Corruption the Celtel Way : Lessons from the Front Line. Africa Region Findings & Good Practice Infobriefs; No. 274. © World Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9571 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”
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