Diamonds Are A Country's Best Friend

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 31, 2010
Alexander McCall-Smith, professor of medical law at the University of Edinburgh and author of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Knopf, 2003), explains Botswana's good governance, bad AIDS crisis, and mineral wealth

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